Can you not hear yourself in Zoom? Ah! That is so
frustrating, isn't it? You've got the microphone
which is your input and then you've got the speakers which is the
output. And we want you want you to be able to hear yourself,
because what if other people can't hear you?
So, here's what you do in a Zoom call (and you can do this if you connect
connect to Zoom even while you're waiting). Sometimes it's a
good idea to test your speaker beforehand.
Let me go into this bit. So I've shown you how to turn off your microphone (mute).
You can see that red line there, which means that my microphone is muted. "You
are muted now." I'm going to turn that back on.
Now I'm going to click on this button here, this up arrow here,
and here is where I've got the microphone. I've already told you the
microphone is the input, the speaker is the output. Now the
problem is your output is not going into those
headphones that you've got, right? So, what do we do? We've got a few options
here. The first thing is I'm going to select
my microphone here. My microphone is already selected.
I have an external microphone so that means
that, so that's where you're hearing from is
through this microphone here if you're on Zoom. But my speaker
is actually coming not from there, not from any headphones
but from from the external speakers of the laptop. So you can change your
speaker. Now I can change my speaker to the
microphone. If I had speakers plugged into here
if I plug speakers into there, I could put headphones into there. I could
listen in through that, but I don't do that,
so my microphone is one thing; my speaker is another.
So how do we test it? Well that's how to change it. I can make it the same as the
system. The system is already set to the internal speakers of my laptop. How
do we test it? And how do we change the audio
settings. [ringtone plays] Can you hear that?
So, I can hear that. Yes, that was good. Do you hear a ringtone? I do.
So i'm going to hit "yes". There: hit yes there.
And now I'm testing my microphone [echo "and now I'm testing my microphone".
Let me do that. What if that's not working? Well let me try this.
I'm going to break it for myself. So, that was the test
the speaker and microphone. Let me go in to the more detailed
audio. So my speaker is currently set to... let me just move myself there...my
my speaker is currently set to the built-in output. If i set the speaker
to the Rode microphone (remember I don't
have anything plugged in here, it's not going to work, is it?) So I'm
going to click that. Now let me do the test. You can see that
my microphone is working here. See this? And I can say "test the
microphone", same as the test I did before.
But what about if I test my speaker? I'm going to test the speaker here.
"Okay! Can you hear me?" The speaker is coming up with the output
that's going into it. That's working but i'm not hearing anything so i'm going to
press stop.
And let me try that again. I'll test this. Click "Test Speaker" to make sure you
can hear it. Well I can't hear it. If you can't hear
the test (which I can't), select a different speaker. So, I'm going
to press another speaker which is the same as the system which is
actually the internal speakers. And now I do the
test again. Test the speaker, okay? And now I can hear that test.
So those are the options. There are some advanced options. I'm not going to go
into those. Oh I'd better stop that test. So I'm not
going to go into those but those settings are settings that I
like to keep just the same all the time. Now, sometimes
it is helpful to have headphones in. Remember the headphones is
what's coming out of the computer to you That's the output or the
speakers are the output and the microphone is what is going
from you into into Zoom. Now, one last thing which is
kind of a workaround. It's a bit ugly but if you really
really can't get your speakers working, here's another way around it.
You may be able to log into Zoom and then you silence yourself. You mute
yourself here, because you also log in on your phone. You log in onto
Zoom on your phone and basically you're like two people
connecting to the Zoom— one through the computer and one through
one through the phone. I have done that sometimes because
it can be a little bit hard. Sometimes that can work. It's going to be a
bit frustrating but at least people can see you and you know that they are
hearing you and that you're hearing them as well. But
if that happens there's sometimes you can have echoes and all
kinds of things so that's not ideal but there are a few
little workarounds like that. Another option is just log in over your
microphone over your phone and don't use Zoom on your laptop at all. Not great
solutions but your best solution is to is to get your audio working. Another
couple of options are to try different speakers,
different headphones. Try your headphone plug straight into or your earphones
plug straight into your laptop or your PC,
or plug them into your external microphone. Try it without the external
microphone. It's just a bit of testing.
Chances are that your speakers and your headphones are not broken but
they may be. I don't know. I hope this helps. A bit of a long
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