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How to get back to voice chatting when Discord isn't cooperating with your mic
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Are you having trouble with Discord not picking up your voice when you're talking? This can be an incredibly frustrating situation, especially because there's not one single fix for the issue. However, we've gathered all the ways you can try and fix it when your mic just isn't working on Discord. Keep reading to learn more.

Reasons Your Mic Isn't Working on Discord

First, make sure you're not muted/deafened. You should also make sure your Discord audio input is set to your microphone. If this doesn't help, you might need to tweak your audio settings. If you have a cardioid microphone, make sure you're talking into the front of it. If nothing else works, your mic might be broken.

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Check if You're Muted/Deafened

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Check Permissions

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Check Your Discord Input Device

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  1. To get to your voice settings, click the cogwheel icon on desktop/the web or your profile picture on the app, then select Voice & Video or just Voice. In this menu, check your input device:
    • Find Input Device and make sure the microphone you want to use is selected. If your microphone isn't selected, select it from the dropdown.
    • A common issue is that when you plug in certain controllers (like a PS5 DualSense controller), all of your microphone inputs will switch to the controller.
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Adjust Your Microphone's Input Sensitivity

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  1. To get to your voice settings, click the cogwheel icon on desktop/the web or your profile picture on the app, then select Voice & Video or just Voice. In this menu, check your input sensitivity settings:
    • Find Input Sensitivity and toggle off "Automatically determine input sensitivity".
    • Then use the slider to adjust the ratio of green and yellow on the bar. The highlighted portion of this bar should always go into the green section when you're talking into your mic to ensure that everything you say is getting picked up.
    • If you don't want to turn off automatic input sensitivity, you can instead try toggling off Advanced Voice Activity further down in the Voice & Video settings menu.
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Disable Noise Suppression

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  1. To get to your voice settings, click the cogwheel icon on desktop/the web or your profile picture on the app, then select Voice & Video or just Voice. In this menu, check your input device:
    • Noise Suppression: If you're having issues with your microphone not picking up your voice, turn off noise suppression. Discord has built-in noise suppression which usually works to cut out background noises when you're on a call, but it could be contributing to Discord not picking up your mic.
    • Automatic Gain Control: Toggle this off if you're having issues with Discord picking up your voice.
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Check Your USB Port/Microphone Jack

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  1. Try plugging your microphone into another USB port or microphone jack to see if this solves the problem. If your microphone has a USB plug, you can also try unplugging it from the port and plugging in something else, like a flash drive. If the flash drive appears in your devices and you can use it, then the issue isn't your USB port.
    • If your microphone jack stops working, try a USB sound card. This device plugs into a USB port and has a headphone and microphone jacks so you can use your headphones/microphone via a USB port.
    • If you're running out of usable USB ports on your computer, try a USB hub. You just need one working USB port on your computer to plug the hub in, and then you can plug all of your USB devices into the hub to use them on your computer.
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Update Audio Drivers

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Luigi Oppido
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This article was reviewed by Luigi Oppido and by wikiHow staff writer, Hannah Dillon. Luigi Oppido is the Owner and Operator of Pleasure Point Computers in Santa Cruz, California. Luigi has over 25 years of experience in general computer repair, data recovery, virus removal, and upgrades. He is also the host of the Computer Man Show! broadcasted on KSQD covering central California for over two years. This article has been viewed 27,198 times.
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