No sound from microphone with zoom

[Itai-Nelken]

No description provided.

[Pythonic456]

Can you provide a description?

Just from the title of this issue, I think you're trying to use the latest version of Zoom, with Noise Suppression. What computer are you using for this? If you're using a Pi 4, then Zoom's Noise
Suppression will use up all of the CPU and also make the microphone too quiet to hear. One
way to solve this (even if it isn't a nice way), is to turn the microphone input all the way up,
to boosted levels. Then you are audible, but still only just.

Another way to solve this is to use an old version of Zoom, although this might
not work for much longer because of security updates for Zoom.

[Itai-Nelken]

I did turn up the microphone volume volume all the way up, I'm using a pi 4 and the latest version of zoom installed from Pikiss. I also tried the pi-apps version, and installing it myself on TwisterOS v1.9.1 and Ubuntu 20.10.

[Pythonic456]

I don't think this is box86s fault, this is just the RPi 4 not having enough processing
power to run Zoom with Noise Suppression. You could try turning the Noise Suppression
level to Auto or Low, that might help.

Do you mean you are using the Ubuntu 20.10 for RPi 4?

[Itai-Nelken]

I tried to run zoom on Ubuntu 20.10 on rpi4 because I have an older version of zoom on it.
sound did work, but now it stopped working. noise suppresion is on auto, and putting it on low doesn't help.

[Pythonic456]

Try downgrading Zoom even more, to before noise suppression was added.

[Itai-Nelken]

how do I do that?

[Itai-Nelken]

@Pythonic456 mean do you know where can I get a older version of zoom?

[Pythonic456]

I'm not sure where to get an older version of Zoom, but you could try getting Zoom from Botspots Pi-Apps, which is working fine for me.

[Itai-Nelken]

well, audio output (microphone still not working for me, and the linux version of zoom doesn't have the option to enable 'original sound'

[Pythonic456]

For now, you can use Share Computer Sound and play the microphone with ffplay... then mute the simultaneous output of zoom_combine_device in PulseAudio Control... then it works. But it has about 2 seconds of delay... up to you to do it this way or not

[Itai-Nelken]

I'm using the 'use phone audio' option for now, thanks for the advice anyway.

[Pythonic456]

Can you close this issue now?

[Itai-Nelken]

yes