Dear All,
I have just bought headphone with an embedded microphone, but Skype is not recognizing it. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
On 3/16/20 11:19 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
I have just bought headphone with an embedded microphone, but Skype is not recognizing it. Any ideas?
We need a lot more detail than that. USB, headphone jack, or bluetooth? If headphone jack, does it have one or two jacks? If one, does it have 4 conductors? Does the audio control panel register sound levels from the microphone?
On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 6:29 PM Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
I have just bought headphone with an embedded microphone, but Skype is not recognizing it. Any ideas?
We need a lot more detail than that. USB, headphone jack, or bluetooth? If headphone jack, does it have one or two jacks? If one, does it have 4 conductors? Does the audio control panel register sound levels from the microphone?
Thanks, Samuel. Now that I have changed from
Analog stereo
to
Analog stereo duplex,
the microphone is recognized. However, it is not capturing the sound on the Skype test call.
Oddly, the option
Analog stereo duplex
is said to be unavailable.
My headphone have only a jack. Here they are:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Jt8jk3ufI
Paul
On Mon, 2020-03-16 at 18:46 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
My headphone have only a jack. Here they are:
That model doesn't have a microphone. The cable they show only has the usual 3 pole plug for stereo headphones.
On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 11:32 PM Tim via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
My headphone have only a jack. Here they are:
That model doesn't have a microphone. The cable they show only has the usual 3 pole plug for stereo headphones.
Thanks, Tim, but it does have a microphone:
https://www.sony.com/electronics/headband-headphones/mdr-zx110-zx110a-zx110a...
Mine is:
MDR-ZX110AP model
Paul
Tim:
That model doesn't have a microphone. The cable they show only has the usual 3 pole plug for stereo headphones.
Paul Smith:
Thanks, Tim, but it does have a microphone:
https://www.sony.com/electronics/headband-headphones/mdr-zx110-zx110a-zx110a...
Mine is:
MDR-ZX110AP model
Okay, that's a (slightly) different model than the one you previously linked to.
That Sony page doesn't give pictures, nor an adequate description of the connections. When it comes to headsets with mikes, there's two common ways to do it:
A y-lead with separate mike and headphone connectors (3 pole TRS - tip, ring and sleeve for each of them).
Or a single lead, with a 4 pole plug (TRRS - tip, ring, ring, and sleeve) that has everything together.
And just to be difficult there's two incompatible wiring standards for the 4 pole plugs. And, either way, you *may* not be able to connect that directly to a lot of computers.
As far as voice clarity goes, that could simply be the quality of the mike. Sometimes it's just a badly formed air hole in the mike casing, often it's a bad mike element. And some sound cards have crappy input stages, too. You can run some tests by recording through the computer, and listening to playback. That's easier to judge than asking for other people's opinions over skype.
Mikes that are placed part way up the headphone cord are not near your mouth, and will be picking up a lot of ambient noise as well as your voice. Holding the mike nearer to your mouth may help a lot.
Mikes built into the side of headsets suffer similarly, but with no way to circumvent that problem. The better type of headset has a mike on a boom that gets it closer to your mouth. Proximity helps an awful lot, so that you are much louder than the ambient racket around you.
On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 6:46 PM Paul Smith phhs80@gmail.com wrote:
I have just bought headphone with an embedded microphone, but Skype is not recognizing it. Any ideas?
We need a lot more detail than that. USB, headphone jack, or bluetooth? If headphone jack, does it have one or two jacks? If one, does it have 4 conductors? Does the audio control panel register sound levels from the microphone?
Thanks, Samuel. Now that I have changed from
Analog stereo
to
Analog stereo duplex,
the microphone is recognized. However, it is not capturing the sound on the Skype test call.
Oddly, the option
Analog stereo duplex
is said to be unavailable.
My headphone have only a jack. Here they are:
Solved! I had to connect the cable of the headphones to the computer microphone entry.
Unfortunately, the microphone works fine, but no sound on the headphones -- the sound goes only to the computer speakers. Any ideas?
Paul
On 3/16/20 2:51 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 6:46 PM Paul Smith phhs80@gmail.com wrote:
My headphone have only a jack. Here they are:
Solved! I had to connect the cable of the headphones to the computer microphone entry.
Unfortunately, the microphone works fine, but no sound on the headphones -- the sound goes only to the computer speakers. Any ideas?
Assuming that the ones you have are MDR-ZX110AP with the microphone, it has a 4 conductor plug. If your laptop has separate headphone and microphone jacks, you will need to get a splitter to separate the signals. Newer laptops have a single jack that matches the one on phones which combines them.
On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 11:46 PM Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
My headphone have only a jack. Here they are:
Solved! I had to connect the cable of the headphones to the computer microphone entry.
Unfortunately, the microphone works fine, but no sound on the headphones -- the sound goes only to the computer speakers. Any ideas?
Assuming that the ones you have are MDR-ZX110AP with the microphone, it has a 4 conductor plug. If your laptop has separate headphone and microphone jacks, you will need to get a splitter to separate the signals. Newer laptops have a single jack that matches the one on phones which combines them.
Thanks, Samuel. Indeed, my computer has separate headphone and microphone jacks. That is not a laptop, but a desktop computer.
I can use Skype by using my headphones microphone and the computer speakers to listen to the audio. However, some people comment that my voice is not so clear on Skype. Is there some way of improving the audio quality on Skype without buying the recommended splitter?
Paul
On 3/16/20 4:58 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
I can use Skype by using my headphones microphone and the computer speakers to listen to the audio. However, some people comment that my voice is not so clear on Skype. Is there some way of improving the audio quality on Skype without buying the recommended splitter?
The mic is on the cable which not going to be great for using the computer speakers. The only thing I can suggest other than the splitter is getting an external mic and use the headset just for the headphones.
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 5:42 AM Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
I can use Skype by using my headphones microphone and the computer speakers to listen to the audio. However, some people comment that my voice is not so clear on Skype. Is there some way of improving the audio quality on Skype without buying the recommended splitter?
The mic is on the cable which not going to be great for using the computer speakers. The only thing I can suggest other than the splitter is getting an external mic and use the headset just for the headphones.
Thanks, Samuel and Tim. I could not find, in the shops around, the recommended splitter. So, I opted to buy a microphone, which was cheap.
Paul