Windows 10: How do I get my audio input to be my internal laptop microphone?

Microsoft is by far the most frustrating and unhelpful company I have EVER had to deal with. Support pages are absoulotely usueless and there is absoloutley 0 way to connect with a representative on either messaging or call. All I need to know is why my internal built in Microphone is not regerstering. I know for a fact I have one and everytime I try to use dictation on word or even use Cortana on my laptop it says that my microphone needs permission. I have checked everything. My microphone has access to all my apps, nothing is muted, speech recognition is on. When I go to system sound sett

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Line level audio not accepted as a "microphone" input

Hi Greg -

Thank you for the quick reply!

I do understand the differences in signal levels. The references you provided explain the different levels, but do not address my question.

My problem lies in the internal connections the OS provides.

I want to use a specific program that is looking for a microphone input.

I use an external preamp to boost the microphone signal up to an instrument level, which allows me to use a switch to select between the 'mike' input and other higher level inputs before it gets routed into my audio interface to the PC.

The program I want to use doesn't see the input from my audio interface as a 'mike' input.

Any program that works with 'mike' inputs must be relying on the motherboard or soundcard to have already amplified the 'mike' signal to a level it can work with. I don't believe the programs are working with the low level microphone output signal.

I want to be clear here - I am not suggesting putting the amplified microphone signal into a "microphone" input on the PC. In fact I have turned off the internal motherboard sound system, because I use a high quality audio interface to bring audio into the PC on a USB line.

So it is a question of internal routing. How can I get a boosted 'mike' input found on a 'instrument' level input line to be accepted as speech by a program?

 

Laptop internal microphone not working in Windows 10

My laptop's internal microphone seems to not work at all, in spite of trying everything I could. When I use wired headphones, the bar in the microphone in 'Sound' does work, and bluetooth headphones seem to work as well as a separate microphone device in the list in 'Sound'. I tried the following and the problem still persists:

1. Did all the pending Windows updates (which were not detected for over a year due to an error)

2. Automatically updated microphone drivers

3. Updated microphone drivers with Audio Endpoint

4. Uninstalled and reinstalled drivers

5. Manually downloaded and installed Realtek audio drivers from my laptop's website

6. Checked all the settings as suggested in various forums and solution videos, such unmute mic, allow mic permission, enable devices, troubleshoot, etc.

The troubleshooting of audio had returned a message 'Generic audio device detected', which I couldn't solve, in case that helps. In spite of all this, my internal microphone still seems to not work. However, I can often hear a vague noise feedback when i turn on the 'listen to the device' option in microphone properties, but does not register on the sound bar for 'Microphone'.

Kindly help me solve this as I have been suffering without microphone on my laptop for over a year now, and hoped that the pending Windows updates would finally completely solve this issue, which it didn't. Thanks in advance!

 

internal microphone not working since updates

Hi,

We'd like to confirm if you're still unable to utilize the internal microphone after installing the update? If yes, as an initial step to get the microphone working again, we suggest that you update the driver under
Audio Inputs and Outputs in the Device Manager. The steps on how to update the device driver on your device can be found on this
link.

We'll appreciate if you can send us an update.