Set Default Device vs Set Default Communication Device Properties – opens that devices properties dialog. Set Default Communication Device – see below. It opens Control Panel | Speech Recognition.
Now you know that you’ve selected the right device and it’s working!Ĭonfigure – should be called ‘Configure speech recognition’. We tap on the little mic hole on the laptop lid.Īs you tap, look for the ‘Test your microphone’ indicator to move. Select the microphone then lightly tap on the microphone ‘hole’ on the device. How to tell which microphone is working?Ī simple way to test that a microphone is working or which input selection matches a certain hardware microphone. The ‘real’ microphone (inbuilt to the laptop) is called, in our case, ‘Microphone Array (Realtek(R) Audio)’ depending on the laptop model. Bluetooth devices can connect automatically without you realizing it.
There’s also a Bluetooth connected mic and headphones. Three of the input options are ‘virtual’, created by programs to capture audio from other sources like a smartphone being used as a webcam or merging various sources into a single source. More than one input option available and Windows has set the wrong, maybe unexpected, one as the default. The above list is from an ordinary laptop with in-built microphone but there are five different audio input options! This happens a lot and a common cause of microphone trouble.
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