Re: [tlug] Accessing microphone

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 08/05/06, Dave M G <martin@example.com> wrote:

> What's happened is that in both Audacity and gnome-sound-recorder, I
> tried recording my voice, and got no measurable response.
>
> But then I noticed - and verified with much experimentation - that there
> is sound being picked up on the microphone and outputted again through
> speakers or headphones, but it's just incredibly light.

OK, maybe you just need to up the input gain:

amixer set "Input Gain" 100

How now (brown cow)?

> PS: Josh, I just made the mental connection that you are responsible for
> the Rikaichan port to Thunderbird. Great work there - I'm finding it
> incredibly useful.

Thanks. I guess you also have me to blame that sometimes the popups
float over the word that you are trying to read. :) Computing the
offsets is fairly hackish in rikaichan, and my Thunderbird hack
certainly didn't add any clarity to that.

I use rikaichan all the time at work, so I guess that makes two
satisfied users of the Thunderbird port. :)

-Josh