Speech and headphones

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magni

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Hi,

I seem to be having one heck of time getting the speech feature to work with my headphones, I tried two different ones. On both I can hear sound but there doesn't seem to be any input from the mic. I have setup the input device to external mic and no go. Both headsets work under Windoze... so the mic's aren't defective..

any ideas?

thanks,

frederic
 
Hey! Look! Post 1! Welcome to the board! Hope we can help you out, here.

Hrm... it's hard to tell without more info...

If you go into System Preferneces, click on "Sound," and then click "input," can you drag the Input Volume slider up, and does it work? If not...

Hrmm... I have a rather silly question... which Mac is this? How old is it? 'Cause, if it's an older Mac, those Macs actually didn't have a standard mic input, but rather, an Apple Plaintalk mic input, which acctually has a longer jack.

If so, you might want to pick up one of these babies, which has a more standard input jack: http://griffintechnology.com/products/imic/

Hope we can help. And welcome to macosx.com.
 
If this is OS X, open System Preferences->Sound and select Input. See if the Input/Output is set to your device (or the port it connects to). Also, is this USB or a single cable? I say this because some older Mac laptops did not have Audio-In on them. The device would have to be USB then. Please list your computer setup when asking for help.
 
The "mic inputs" on Macs are still not mic inputs, but line level inputs. Which means you need either a preamplifier or a Griffin iMic like adambyte mentioned. Your best alternative is getting a native USB headset, which should be working perfectly with any Mac running OS X.
 
On my Mac powerbook G3, I got a USB headset to use with Skype, and it worked...at first. But most of the time, no matter how I set the preferences, still bypasses the headset and only input/outputs sound out of the built-in mic.

I have an iMic - would plugging the headset be a solution?
 
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