• Happy holidays, folks! Thanks to each and every one of you for being part of the Tom's Hardware community!

My mic stopped working randomly

Blibet

Prominent
Mar 29, 2017
1
0
510
So yesterday i was playing overwatch and noticed nobody could hear me in voice chatt. I could hear them and when i pressed the push to talk button the little sound that notifies you that your mic is on came up but nobody could hear me. Today it did the same so i went on to see what the problem was. I tried to talk in discord but no sound came out there either. Now i checked my recording units or whatever (mics) and saw that mine was in there but no sound came out.
everything seems to be in order but no sound is coming out of it. it shows that its not plugged in when its not plugged in, shows its plugged in when it is. Help? maybe to check for drivers (its Realtek High Definition Audio) but i press on Configure but a window comes up and says: "Windows Speech Recognition is not available for the current display language". Im not sure if thats what it says in english cause im actually using google translate to translate that from swedish. Help please!
PS: i havent dropped my headphones and there's no visually damage to the headphones or the mic.
 
Did you tried checking your voice on other programs than discord? Ever tried testing your mic sound through sound recorder to find out if the sound wave levels are working when you speak? (Its a small program located in windows called "Sound Recorder" )

Do you have a separate microphone or a built-in microphone through headset?