Solved Mic not working

Hello

Windows 11 Home
24H2
OS Build 26100.6899

Recently when using Google meet my team members told me they could not hear me. It worked fine before.
So I tried some troubleshooting . But none of these below helped.
1. In Device manager , Sound Video Game Controllers I updated the the Realtek Audio and it says device is up to date.
2. In the same Realtek Audio I was adviced to remove it and reboot the pc and after reboot it installed back the same Realtek Audio 6.0.1.8639 dated 2/19/2019
3. in System , Troubleshoot, other troubleshooters, Audio and I click run "there was a problem reaching the app"
4. updated to the latest win11 as above

Could some please advice any next steps ? its a Asus TUF Gaming FX705DT laptop. Its about 5 years old now. I'm not sure if its also a hardware issue ?

Thanks in advance

check: System>Privacy & Security> Microphone see if it's on?

In Settings> System > Sound

could be the drivers? There may be more posts hang in there.

thanks, and yes these were the first things I checked. and they were on. They worked before. now they are still on, and the mic does not work. ok. I will wait for more posts.

run
go to Recording tab. does the mic show there (as enabled too)?

reply to dacrone's post. This video might help: see your pm

"How To Fix Microphone Not Working on Asus Laptop": put this on the youtube search bar -

Could it be a hardware failure? Do you have spare sound cables, adapters or microphones?

In my life I've only used a microphone seriously during several months between 2021 and 2022, so I was seriously unexperienced in mics. I bought a web camera whose mic was defective and did not work. While needing the mic I was believing it was a web camera w/o mic (Google Meet was detecting it but I was thinking it was a cheaper camera with maybe the circuitry for it, chipset etc but not the actual microphone). Anyway I had also bought a headset and it always worked fine.

While "debugging" the sound part of this stage months afterwards, I realized the camera was meant to have mic and I got it repaired in warranty.

The "debug" was b/c upon upgrading to Windows 11 the mic stopped working. I was having problems at work (not related to any technological issue) and I wasn't needing it anymore. The W11 problem was a fixable sw problem related to hw and drivers, the maker published a fix, but my search for solutions was sloppy and I didn't get to fix it during the "stage". I got it months afterwards during this "debugging".

My "debugging" did also discover yet another hw failure: my TRRS to 2xTRS adapter had failed in the mic part. My conclusion was the feeding line had failed, b/c the mic was able to get sound at very low volume. I've even done a text about mics technology.

Thanks I watched that youtube video and latest one and either checked or did all that and still nothing when I tested. Any other suggestions ?

i'm still hopeful there is a solution.....so far i checked everything i know and from this post, and nothing works yet. its from the system level when i test from system sound , there is nothing when i do a playback , and the volume bar doesn't move when i speak.... i'm guessing maybe its the drivers ? I never had mic issues before... and again it was working before until recently.

asuswin11guy said:

Thanks I watched that youtube video and latest one and either checked or did all that and still nothing when I tested. Any other suggestions ?

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Win+R to run C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Speech\SpeechUX\sapi.cpl
go to Speech Recognition tab > does it detect your mic when you speak? (does the green bar move)

Many thanks @dacrone that led to the solution in advanced button of the speech recognition tab and made the other selection. problem solved. Not sure why or how but happy it works now.