Ubuntu 18.04 turn off microphone volume auto adjust on Zoom

Question

While using microphone in some applications like Zoom, The microphone volume automatically gets reduced (auto-adjusted)

I want to Turn off mic auto adjusting feature in Ubuntu 18.04. It always adjust mic volume and resulting in low volume.

Any solutions?

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 21 '20 at 07:43

10

The simplest way is to uncheck the "Automatically adjust volume" option in the audio settings from your zoom account.

answered Jul 21 '20 at 07:43

Muthu

Thank you so much. I can conduct zoom meetings in peace. This issue has been affecting me for past 2 months. – user238607 Nov 17 '21 at 19:48

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 22 '21 at 06:07

1

For zoom, you have to disable in

Audio settings (You can get to it from the arrow next to the microphone mute/unmute button) > Test speaker and microphone.

Uncheck Automatically adjust volume.

You can also install pavucontrol; but zoom overides it:

sudo apt-get install pavucontrol

... run with

pavucontrol

Hope this helps ...

edited Sep 22 '21 at 06:07

Zanna

answered May 11 '20 at 09:18

Ubuntu Survivor

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 06 '20 at 15:07

1

Sign in is required for the audio settings to be available.

answered Dec 06 '20 at 15:07

Christo

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Dec 18 '21 at 01:37

0

You can use the app audio setting as in the screenshot found under the microphone option.

edited Dec 18 '21 at 01:37

karel

answered Dec 17 '21 at 18:43

Solomon

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