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I installed MS Teams for Linux on Ubuntu 20.04 a few weeks ago. It worked perfectly well, until earlier this week, the microphone stopped working. I have a mic in my headset, and a mic in the Logitech camera, both work ok for all applications, except with Teams. When I use the mic, I see the record sound meter in Ubuntu sound record it, but the Teams sound meter in "settings" doesn't.
What can I do?
edit:
This morning, audio worked on MS Teams. But when the meeting actually started, a popup appeared saying "your microphone does not work" and it stopped working. It must be a bug in MS Teams, otherwise it couldn't have worked for the first 5 minutes.
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I have exactly same issue, If I try to use external camera with build in microphone (Logitech c925e) mic is randomly failing in Teams (1.4.00.4855). When I open sound settings during call they are frozen and mic stops working permanently till call is restarted...
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Similar issue here on Kubuntu 18.04. The microphone on the USB headset is visible in the Pulse Audio Volume Control, however it would not appear in the recording tab when trying to use Teams. It was as if it could not find the microphone. In the devices section in Teams settings, there were no microphones to select. Sometimes closing (Quit) Teams for 10 minutes would see the microphone reappear, sometimes it took a few attempts.
Today however the microphone would not appear, I tried down grading with sudo apt install teams=1.3.00.30857 restarting teams but still no microphone, then upgrading with sudo apt install teams=1.4.00.7556 and restarting Teams - nothing worked, no microphone found.
I then uninstalled teams sudo apt remove teams, removed the folder ~/.config/Microsoft/Microsoft Teams/, installed Teams sudo apt install teams=1.4.00.7556 and after logging in - it worked. Whew!!!
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Same issue with bulleye
Linux network47 5.10.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.46-4 (2021-08-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux
11.0
teams-insiders/stable,now 1.4.00.13653 amd64 [installed]
Microsoft Teams for Linux is your chat-centered workspace in Office 365.
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Using version 1.4.00.13653 on Ubuntu 20.04 and the microphone issues are a disaster. Standard pulse audio install. Basically I will sound like I'm underwater (from what other callers tell me) unless I put my mouth basically over the microphone. As other posters have stated, messing with the mic volume from the system tray settings (using KDE) sometimes temporarily resolves the issue but usually not for long. I have the "Automatically adjust mic sensitivity" setting turned OFF in the device settings as that makes the mic totally unusable...
Come on MS, stop treating Teams for Linux like a second class citizen... I just had to use Teams on a macbook the other week and it worked flawlessly and had a bunch of changes/features the linux version does not have (and may never have).
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Same problem in openSuse 15.2. No such issue when using other conferencing software like zoom or google meet.
There is nothing wrong with the microphone, it appears to be specific to Teams in Linux.
Call starts ok and then devolves into a trainwreck.
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same problem here. the pulseaudio/adjust volume "fix" worked for some time, but it does not work for the actual version. Microphone is active for like 1 or 2 mintues in a call, then stops working. even muting/unmuting does not help. Also, the mic gain indicator in the teams app is frozen. Seems to me like a software bug.
would be really nice of microsoft to at least aknowledge the problem and work on a solution.
Web app is not really a solution, because It does not show video from all participants when in group call.
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I'm having this problem, too, and I've had it for about half a year.
The volume adjustment seems to work, but frankly there's always a new solution. It can be anything from adjusting the volume to restarting the computer to making sure not to run Citrix at the same time or any combination of them.
The list of inputs and outputs is sometimes entirely empty as well for no apparent reason. The list of inputs and outputs also does not update if I plug in or plug out an extra microphone or headset.
The Teams Linux client is outrageously bad... :/ I really appreciate the effort, but there's got to be some more effort put in here. These errors are common and easy to reproduce.
Pop!_OS 20.04, Ryzen 5900X, RØDE microphone, Logitech webcam microphone, Steelseries Arctis Pro Wireless, a friggin' Valve Index headset microphone - you name it. The microphone doesn't matter.