How to test your mic online
- Press Test my mic, and allow the browser to use your microphone.
- Talk as you normally would, and watch the bar and the readings.
- Press Record 5 seconds and play it back to hear yourself.
- Pick another mic from the list if the wrong one is in use.
How the test works
The page listens to your mic with the browser’s own noise cutting turned off. That way you hear the mic itself, the way a recording would.
It keeps the last five seconds in mind. The loudest moment tells you if your voice is loud enough, and the quietest tells you how noisy the room is.
Fixing what it finds
- Too quiet. Move closer to the mic, a hand’s width away, or turn up its input level in your computer’s sound settings.
- Too loud. Move back a little or turn the input level down. A recording that crackles can’t be fixed later.
- A noisy room. Turn off fans and close the window. What is left, the noise remover takes out of the recording.
Once it sounds right, the voice recorder records and saves your voice.