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How to repair microphone on laptop
Jolly_Roger
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in Techie Stuff
My Asus X52F laptop has developed a really strange problem.
When I plug in my headset correctly, the computer cannot pick up the mircrophone. However, if I unplug the headphones entirely and plug the microphone into the headphone jack, the microphone can now be recognised!!
When used with Dragon voice recognition software, normally, this is not a problem, since the microphone, despite being plugged into the wrong jack, works! So, I speak to the computer and my voice comes up as text on the screen.
But, for some reason, if I listen to a recording I have made on an independent voice recorder and then try to speak selective notes into the computer, the software, which has obviously been trained to recognise my voice, tries to understand everything that it is hearing on the tape and we end up with absolute rubbish on screen. Simply too much information is being presented.
Previously, when the headphone jacks were working perfectly, this was not a problem and when I use the above system with another laptop computer, the software only picks up what I am speaking into the microphone and ignores the background noice generated by the indpendent voice recorder.
My question is this: Is the problem with the jacks on the computer one of hardware or of software? Clearly, to use Dragon how it always used to work, I need to resolve this problem. If it is one of hardware, how easy would it be to get this repaired and would it be expensive?
When I plug in my headset correctly, the computer cannot pick up the mircrophone. However, if I unplug the headphones entirely and plug the microphone into the headphone jack, the microphone can now be recognised!!
When used with Dragon voice recognition software, normally, this is not a problem, since the microphone, despite being plugged into the wrong jack, works! So, I speak to the computer and my voice comes up as text on the screen.
But, for some reason, if I listen to a recording I have made on an independent voice recorder and then try to speak selective notes into the computer, the software, which has obviously been trained to recognise my voice, tries to understand everything that it is hearing on the tape and we end up with absolute rubbish on screen. Simply too much information is being presented.
Previously, when the headphone jacks were working perfectly, this was not a problem and when I use the above system with another laptop computer, the software only picks up what I am speaking into the microphone and ignores the background noice generated by the indpendent voice recorder.
My question is this: Is the problem with the jacks on the computer one of hardware or of software? Clearly, to use Dragon how it always used to work, I need to resolve this problem. If it is one of hardware, how easy would it be to get this repaired and would it be expensive?
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I would bypass the hardware by booting from a bootable linux cd like mint. Then hopefull there is enough ram to install audacity or something like it, and then in recording mode try and diagnose what is happening.
assuming the hardware is ok, drivers would be the first thing to replace as it is the easiest.
If it is hardware, the first guess would be jack plugs as they are mechanical and it is often very easy to hit and bump external connections on a laptop.
here is how to strip and replace item on your laptop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYTdeG8a4ao0
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