Windows 10: Problem Using Microphone With Windows 10

Can anyone help me solve this issue with my microphone. I've just upgraded laptop to a Dell XPS with Windows 10. I have a USB condensor microphone, which is recognised by Windows when I plug it in, but as soon as I use Audacity or Voice Recorder, I get an error. Windows gives 'Your microphon isn't working error'.


I've tried everything - restarted, removed from Windows etc. Then I saw a post on Amazon about another microphone, where someone was saying that apparently Skype causes issues. So I went into Skype and saw it does detect the microphone, and it works. ****? So I thought great, I'll remove Skype and the conflict should go... wrong. No other program will work with the microphone except for Skype.


Any ideas? It worked perfectly on my old laptop, which was also Windows 10, so I can't understand it.

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Microphone problem Windows (8/10)

Hi,

To resolve your microphone issue, we suggest that you follow the steps below:

• Click Windows + S then type Speech Recognition on the search bar.
• Click Set up microphone and follow the Microphone setup wizard.
• When you reach Adjust the microphone volume, please note if the volume bar moves from yellow to red.
• Once the Setup wizard is complete, we can check if the microphone works properly. We can eliminate hardware problem from the possible causes of the issue. Please check to if the issue persists in the Third-party software.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Cortana Microphone headset problems.

Hi Mike,

Thank you for using Windows 10.

I understand your concern. I suggest you to follow the steps:

• Open settings by clicking thee windows icon the click settings.
• Search Sound in the top right corner and click it.
• Then right click the one device you want to use, then click default communication device.
• Then try Cortana.

As you've already set up microphone but I would suggest you to check again by typing microphone set up and go through that, it should set everything up for you.

Hope it helps. Let us know if you need more assistance and we'll be glad to help.

 

Microphone Problem

Hello,

The issue that you're experiencing with the microphone may be caused by outdated driver. We would like to know more details about your concern so we can better assist you. Kindly answer the following:

• Have you made any recent changes prior to this issue?
• What specific troubleshooting steps have you done so far?

Meanwhile, we would also suggest that you update your driver. To do that, here are the

steps on how to update drivers in Windows 10.

We look forward to your reply.