I'm experiencing troubles recording audio using an external microphone.

[Yewo]

whenever i try to use an external microphone, it either starts recording and stops unexpectedly or does not even record audio at all 

[Irwin6]

Hi @Yewo,

Welcome to the HP Support Community.

Thank you for posting your query, I will be glad to assist you.

I see that you are facing an issue with using external microphone on your Laptop.

Please follow the below steps to fix the issue.

1) Right-click on the volume icon on the taskbar in the lower-right corner of your screen.

2) Click on the Sounds option > In the sound window select the Recording tab.

3) Select the microphone you want to use > Click the Configure button > The Speech Recognition window will open.

4) Click “Set Up Microphone” (Note: this tool is designed to optimize for speech recognition, but using this will configure your microphone better for your voice.)

5) In the Setup Wizard select the kind of microphone you want to configure > Click Next

6) After this, a screen will appear that gives you information concerning how to use your particular microphone.

7) The wizard will then give you a text to read aloud into your microphone. Do that and click Next when you finish.

😎 Click Finish to close the wizard.

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I hope this helps.

Take care and have a great day ahead!

Irwin6

HP Support