It might also happen that you are able to see the blue bars, but can not record your sound on a certain application. What if you see the blue bars but can not record your voice?

Make sure that the right sound input device is selected.

Make sure that the microphone slider button is turned on.

When this volume is increased, your microphone will become more sensitive to external sounds.

You can increase the sensitivity of your microphone by increasing the Input volume.

This is what you can do to ensure that the system detects your voice. If you see no blue bar, it means that your voice is not being read by your system. If some, or all of these, bars become blue when you speak it means that your microphone is working properly. Then speak into your microphone and notice the vertical bars adjacent to Input level. If you have more than one sound input device, select the one you want to configure from the ‘Choose a device for sound input’ list. Since the microphone is an Input audio device, click on the Input tab on the Sound view to test it:

You need to click on the Sounds tab in order to test and configure your microphone.

The Settings utility opens in the view you were on when you last opened Settings. In order to access Settings, click on the downward arrow located at the top-right corner of your Debian desktop, and then click the settings icon from the following view:Īlternatively, you can enter ‘settings’ in your Application Launcher Search bar (accessible through the Super/Windows key) to open the Settings utility directly. If you prefer using the GUI for performing simple hardware configuration tasks, you can make use of Debian’s Settings utility. We have run the commands and procedures mentioned in this article on a Debian 10 Buster system. We will also explain how to make configurations to your microphone settings to ensure that it works in an optimal manner. In this article, we will describe how to test your microphone on a Debian system. Only when your system is reading your microphone sound as an input, it can process it further to be used in any of your applications. If you are using your system’s built-in microphone or even an external one, it is very important to test if your voice is getting through to your system.

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