Microphone not working well at all since latest Skype update

Support & Help Requests
#1

Hi,

I’m really hoping someone can help me out here.

Since installing the new Skype for Linux Beta, callers have not been able to hear me, though I can hear them. The problem is not limited to Skype, either — I downloaded Discord, which features the exact same problem now, and Ghetto Skype has not helped either.

I’m not tech-savvy but I’ve messed around with a bunch of settings in accordance with suggestions I came across online. I’m on a Lenovo computer, if that matters.

I really need Skype to work for work purposes right now, so I’m pretty desperate. Does anyone have ANY suggestions?

Thanks!

#2

Bump — does anyone have any idea how to deal with this?

#3

Hey. If there’s a problem with Skype beta we can’t do nothing about it sadly . You can try using skype on a browser.

#4

Hi, thanks for your reply.

I reinstalled Ubuntu MATE to see if that’d make any difference today, and it didn’t on Skype or Ghetto Skype, but at least I can make voice calls through Discord and be heard, now. In the new Skype Beta, there’s no way to prevent the sound settings from automatically adjusting themselves that I know of, and that does seem to be the core of the issue. I have, however, had sound issues with previous versions of Skype.

#5

It doesn’t seem to be possible to make calls from a browser, by the way — one can only use the chat function?

#6

Same here since I downloaded what they call Skype Preview…
:rage:
People can’t hear me.
Will resort to web one as an alternative temporarily.
My contacts and me slowly moving to other products, anyways.

#7

So, you can indeed make calls through the web version of Skype? I wonder why mine won’t.

#8

And… not a preview of better things to come, is it, that “Skype Preview”? :slight_smile:

#9

A preview of disappointment to come