Windows 10: Windows 11 not picking up audio input from any microphones

Hello, Recently Windows has stopped picking up audio from my microphone for a reason that I do not know, it seemed to occur at a random time and I cannot work out what is causing this.I have spent ages looking through various websites and articles on solutions to fix this but not one thing has worked. I have tried using a different microphone, it didn't work either, and have also used the microphone on a different device where it did work, leading me to believe that the problem is to do with my PC/Windows rather than my microphone. I have tried using the microphone input at both the front and

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Windows 11 not picking up audio input from any microphones

Hello,

Recently Windows has stopped picking up audio from my microphone for a reason that I do not know, it seemed to occur at a random time and I cannot work out what is causing this.

I have spent ages looking through various websites and articles on solutions to fix this but not one thing has worked. I have tried using a different microphone, it didn't work either, and have also used the microphone on a different device where it did work, leading me to believe that the problem is to do with my PC/Windows rather than my microphone.

I have tried using the microphone input at both the front and back of my computer along with also using a USB sound card and that has also not worked. It may be worth pointing out that in both sound cards that I have tried, the audio output works fine but input does not.

My PC has Bitdefender antivirus and I have tried turning it off to see if that made a difference, it did not either.

I have tried using the windows audio trouble-shooter, updating drivers, allowing all apps access to my microphone etc...

Does anyone have any other suggestions as to how to resolve this issue?

Thanks.

 

Microphone still unable to pick up sound from Dragon Speech

Not a techie at all sorry but follow your general drift which is interesting. I've now got a mike input (USB Pro Sound) but how do you make the connection to the headphone output as there's two separate wires ?

 

Non-audio focused applications acquire poor microphone input

I found a "solution" / workaround. But it requires two other applications: Virtual Audio Cable and Voicemeeter. My approach is that:

• Voicemeeter takes input from the microphone and forwards it in mono-mode to one of the virtual cables. The resulting mono is not distorted.
  
• Set the virtual cable to the default microphone / communications device so applications that is not audio-focused pick up the mono source instead.