Hi, this is Bob from Plugable Technologies. What I'd like to
do today is give a quick overview of how you can change
the audio settings in the Zoom video conferencing application.
Now, what does that mean? And why is it important? What I have
here, what you see on screen is the desktop of my Dell laptop,
which is connected to my Plugable UD3900 docking station.
And the docking station has an audio output that you can plug
speakers or headphones into, but the laptop also has built in
speakers and add fungi. There can be cases where when you use
Zoom, you don't hear audio from your other participants in your
meeting via the device that you wish, whether it be the laptop
building speakers or headphones can enter the docking station.
It can get a little confusing how to make these changes. So I
wanted to go over first, the general way that you can
configure audio within windows as a whole, and then within the
Zoom application. So let's jump right in. There's always more
than one way to do something in windows. And in terms of
changing which device audio routes out through the typical
easy way to change that is to come down here to the task bar,
click on the speaker icon, and you'll see that right now. My
default audio output setting is set to Plugable. Audio words
represents the Plugable UD3900 doc connected to my laptop. I
can also
click and make changes. I have one other device, this one
that's called speaker slash headphones, real tech high
definition, audio it's truncated here, which represents the audio
device built into my laptop. Let's change it to my laptop for
a second so that I would hear sound out through my speakers
and the laptop if I wanted to. Okay. That's one way to make
changes in audio. Another two way to make changes is to go
start the settings icon system, and then sound. And this gives
me a similar view, but with a little more information of what
the default sound output devices right now, again, it said to the
building laptop output, cause I just changed it. And what your
audio input device might be and including a microphone on which
I'm using our Plugable USB box right now. But this is just for
windows as a whole. There can be cases where applications have
their own specific audio settings. So let's look at that.
Let me minimize the sound settings. Let me bring up the
Zoom application. I've launched the Zoom application. I'm not in
a meeting, but that's okay. And you can access and make changes
to the Zoom client by clicking on this little settings icon,
the little gear up here in the, in the upper, right. If I click
on that and can see, we have a bunch of different categories
breaking out all the different settings. And one of them is
audio.
When I click on audio, it lists speaker and then shows me the
different audio output options. Mic, right now it set to
Plugable audio, Hey, wait a minute. Why is that different
than what I have here? I have speakers and headphones built in
as my laptop as default, but yet Zoom is showing something
different. That's okay, because it can be different depending on
your preferences. There's no right or wrong way to do it, but
let's say I don't want sound coming through my docking
station. I can click and pick another option. In this case
though, we have three options before in Windows. When I
clicked down in the task bar was just two, I have speakers
Pluable audio, which again represents the docking station.
I have speakers, headphones, Realtek, high definition audio,
which represents the audio device built into the laptop.
But then also same as system. What same as system means is
Zoom will take the default audio output device set for Windows as
a whole and use it as a default as well. But again, it doesn't
have to be that way. You can pick whatever you like. The
important thing to remember is that whichever you prefer, if
you don't hear audio in Zoom, you just have to pick whichever,
whichever option you would prefer, whether it would be the
built in laptop, speakers or headphones or the Plugable audio
device. So hopefully you find that useful and thank you for
watching.