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People cannot hear me or only faintly in meetings

Almost always a different mic is active than you think. Built-in laptop mic vs headset mic vs webcam mic; there are three of them.

Try this first

  1. 1In Teams or Zoom open the audio dropdown and check which mic is actually selected.
  2. 2Speak out loud and watch the meter move. No movement = wrong mic.
  3. 3Manually switch to the correct mic and speak again.
  4. 4On Windows click the speaker icon bottom-right and check the input there too.

When to bring us in

Hit this every meeting? We pin one microphone as default so it does not keep switching.

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