Your question:
How to use your phone as a microphone?
Master's answer:
Today, programs that allow you to communicate via the Internet are very common. They have a great opportunity to hear and see your interlocutor. To ensure proper operation of such programs, you must have a webcam and microphone. This is necessary so that the communication is two-way. Of course, the easiest way is to buy a regular webcam, or use the microphone built into your computer (laptop), however, if you don’t have them at hand, you can solve this problem.
Let's use our mobile phone or smartphone as a microphone. To do this, download the program, install it on your phone and computer, and then synchronize them. We do this so that you can use the camera with the phone microphone.
Nokia phones, which primarily run the Windows Mobile operating system, have a number of features that allow you to make this connection. However, you need to be careful: many applications do not use the microphone, so this way out of the situation will be absolutely useless. Download an excellent program to your phone – Webcamera Plus.
It is worth considering that in order to ensure correct operation of the program and synchronize devices, we need to establish the following connection to choose from: Wi-Fi, USB or Bluetooth. Once you've synced, your phone can be used as a microphone and camera, so you don't even have to remember to use a headset.
Samsung brand phones, as well as Nokia, can also be used as a microphone when talking on a computer. It is worth considering that specific models do not require the use of specialized programs, because each of them is suitable for any device. Let's try to download a similar program that would be more accessible to everyone.
Warelex Mobiola Microphone could be such a program. This software allows you to use your phone as a microphone for your computer. At the same time, it interacts perfectly with Yahoo and Skype. We will download it either from third-party resources or directly from the manufacturer’s website. To connect the phone and computer, we use Bluetooth, because other options are not supported by the application.
Description of the uses and capabilities of this manual
A computer microphone is often used by users for voice communication in applications such as primarily our favorite Steam, Skype, Viber, in softphones with a SIP connection, as well as for recording audio tracks. Therefore, we can safely say that a microphone in a computer is an essential component. High demand also determines its fairly high cost.
It may happen that your microphone stops working due to an accidental fall, electrostatic discharge, the laptop was flooded with beer, or for some other reason unknown to you. The most unpleasant thing is that, as a rule, this happens at the most inopportune moment, for example, when you urgently need to record an audio track to do important work. Most likely, you won’t be able to immediately replace a faulty component; few people keep a spare microphone at home. Moreover, replacement can cost a lot of money. What to do?
And here I want to make you happy. For a temporary, cheap, but effective solution to your problem, there is one simple and interesting way. In order to implement it, you will need a working Android smartphone. I will tell you today how to use Android as a microphone in your computer. This way you will gain time to call a repairman or send the microphone in for repair, and the important task will be completed on time.
In fact, there are several ways to make a microphone for a computer from Android. And they differ primarily in what connection method is possible and necessary to use - wired or wireless.
Review of two applications with different audio signal transmission methods
Below I will describe two of the best applications I know that will turn any of your Android smartphones into a computer microphone.
Preparing your phone
- First of all, you need to “Enable the invisible section for developers.” Go to (Settings-> About phone-> Find “Build number” and press endlessly until a notification appears that it is enabled for developers)
- Install the Wo Mic application and Drivers, here is the link to them, remove the colon before the link, and also enable “USB Debugging” (Settings->For Developers->Enable USB Debugging).
- When you connect debugging, the phone will offer to save the digital fingerprint of your PC as a trusted one, check the “remember PC” box and agree.
Microphon app, developer: Gaz Davidson, free
WO Mic app, developed by Wireless Orange, free
If the previous method scares you about the need to use an audio cable, you can try another one. You can transmit a signal to your computer from an external microphone to Android wirelessly or via a USB cable. To do this, I can recommend you another application called WO Mic. It is also available for download on Google Play Store.
The application is free and has a version for installation on a computer. There is a paid version, which has no ads, and the audio quality is much higher. The WO Mic program can use both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi interfaces to transmit a microphone signal to a computer.
I would like to add separately In this program, so as not to dance with a tambourine, choose the best connection via USB for what? Yes, so that the phone does not unexpectedly run out of charge and via Wi-Fi, if you have an antivirus, inexperienced users will simply be crazy about setting it up.
- To connect your smartphone to your computer via Bluetooth, you need to activate this interface on both devices – your smartphone and your computer. This is a standard procedure and I will not describe it here.
- Then you need both devices to find each other via Bluetooth. Then launch the WO Mic application on your smartphone (it must be launched on your computer at the same time). Go through the settings to the “settings” --> “transport” section and select “Bluetooth” in it. Here, in the settings, you can select the sound source that will be transmitted via the Bluetooth interface.
- Then return to the main menu of the program and click the Start button to start WO Mic. Then launch a similar application on your computer and click on the connect button. Your mobile device will automatically connect to your computer if you have already connected it via Bluetooth. If the connection is not established, check that the Bluetooth connection between the devices is active.
- As soon as you see your PC in the list of connected devices, click the “OK” button, which will temporarily turn your smartphone into a computer microphone.
In this video tutorial, the authors of PRO Hi-Tech studied the topic of professional video shooting with a mobile phone camera. The task is to consider ways to connect an external microphone to a smartphone for various tasks. The word professional indicates the difference that will allow the story to be broadcast, for example, on TV. Cheap microphones in this Chinese store.
Since the presenter will record the sound immediately in the frame, you need a good microphone. There are options here. You can write directly into your phone using the buttonhole. Or you can do it separately, using a voice recorder. Or use a recorder. And then you need to mount it all.
To make the lavalier work instead of the phone's built-in microphone, you will need an adapter. If you try to connect a lavalier to the jack on your phone without it, nothing will work. But don't rush to buy it. You can check whether the device works with an adapter without buying an adapter, using a standard headset.
If the sound is recorded from a headset, the external one will work. You can buy an adapter. If not, then we will act differently.
You got it working, what microphone should you buy? Even a penny one will do. Let's compare SVEN Mk-150, Ritmix RCM-101 and Dialog M-107B. We will connect them to one recorder. Next, the same phrase will be spoken and you will listen to the sound on different devices.
Another option is a Bluetooth headset that can work as a microphone. At the same time, the distance from the smartphone camera to the person in the frame is greater than necessary.
You have it working great. But, for example, the Lumia 950 XL does not want to function with an external one via an adapter. And with a Bluetooth headset it’s the same. But the Nokia Lumia 1520 on Windows 10 performed well.
Therefore, we will record the sound separately. Dictaphones and recorders are suitable for this purpose. Zoom H6 is not the best choice for mobile photography, as it is expensive. You can connect up to 6 sources to it, and we only need one. If we want to record a voice at a distance so that the operator can control the recording level, it is better to use a directional gun. For zoom there is a standard microphone, but it is much cheaper to purchase a third-party one. The second way is to connect the lavalier to records or a voice recorder. Adjust the recording level in advance and hide it in the presenter’s clothes. In this case, you will not be able to monitor the sound. But the freedom of action of a person in the frame is limitless. The selection principle is the same here.
discussion
Ksenia
Tell me please. When you connect a microphone to an Android device, it sees the microphone as headphones, i.e., you can record sound on it, but the sounds of the device itself disappear. How can I make it possible to record sound from the application and from the microphone at the same time?
Boris Clinton
Sven bought 2 days ago in the DNS store for 56 rubles. What's in your review, but the clip needs to be redone, it won't hook onto the jacket.
Today I bought another Sven MK-170 buttonhole with a noise reduction cap at a computer store for only 170 rubles.
I checked the wind, now I’m processing the video, I’ll post it in the morning.
But they also have tests in a store for professional musicians for 2 thousand rubles.
Which is not worth a penny - https: //www. Youtube. Com/watch? V=0ayzhrk4qi8
meaning of life
1:13 thanks for the very important advice. I just bought boya by-m1, according to the seller, this buttonhole should work through an adapter in video shooting mode on a smartphone. But actually it is not. I checked it through the standard headset according to your advice, my xiaomi mi4 does not record through the microphone of regular headphones. We saved you from unnecessary trips to the radio equipment store. I will buy a DSLR.
Maxim zyatnin
With one phone you can take pictures, with others you can write from your lapel - I found this recipe for myself.
The Bluetooth headset croaks and distorts the sound due to the presence of noise reduction. Plus, there are few camera applications that can record sound from a Bluetooth source.
Plush toys mirrabio
Thanks a lot! This is exactly what I was looking for! Shown - what, where and how to do! Good luck to you!
Denchik64
honor p9 lite phone, detects it as headphones, but continues to write to the phone's microphone, I use the same thing with an adapter, tell me what can I do to make it work, or did I waste my money?
Nemola nemola
What is the simplest and free program for Windows 7-10 for overlaying transcribed speech on video and then cutting out the sound recorded on the camera? With synchronization by hops (graphic peaks). I'm not an expert in this and I want to try to record sound on 2 gadgets at the same time.
Uncle Misha
the topic of sound recording does not lose relevance, and the two-year-old video is being discussed, and new videos are being released. When recording on a smartphone, not only the choice of microphone is important, but also which program to record the sound with. In continuation of the budget-microphone theme, I also made a video with my tests (including with a smartphone): https: //youtu. Be/j0dfrl9tgsk
Evgeny Burakov
What voltage can be supplied to the 3.5mm jack of a smartphone? If you feed a signal from a mixer to the microphone input. I heard there is a risk of burning the phone's sound card. On mixers, the RCA outputs from which the signal for recording is taken are 2-4 V. I wonder how risky everything is?
Mariana n
I have an adapter with a microphone, but it records automatically from the main microphone. Where in the settings can I change it to record from an external headset? What program to download (a number of programs). Mersipon.
Andrei sozoland
Today, many people need to make video content, and not everyone immediately has the opportunity to use the services of a professional cameraman, or a decent camera with a lapel
Diana Suyunova
I bought a lavalier microphone on Ali, but it doesn’t work on my laptop or phone! What should I do?
What is another name for the adapter? Will it work with an adapter? Answer please!
Igor igor
Hello
smartphone samsung s6 sm-g920f. I install it in the knee area. I’m going to shoot a video and at the same time I want to record the sound on the video directly during shooting so that later I don’t have to mess around or adjust one to the other. How to do this using an external microphone while leaving all the conversations around, i.e., superimposing my voice on the conversational and general background that makes the internal microphone of the Samsung. Or is the second option to immediately shoot a video and upload what I say into the microphone only using a remote microphone that records both my voice and external conversations without touching or by turning off the internal microphone of the Samsung?
Millenniumlanguages
guys, tell me, I have meizu. I bought an adapter, a sven microphone, as you showed here, and it doesn’t record anything. Are my hands crooked or what could be wrong?
Rightysix
Perhaps the meizu shell does not support recording sound in video from an external microphone. To be sure, you can try connecting a headset and try recording the sound into a video.
Ivan Skorov
I definitely like it! That's how I knew - I liked it before watching! Particularly interesting is what concerns the shooting of the video itself. After all, while dslr cameras have the ability to shoot video in “without enhancements” mode and adjust colors and saturation during processing, smartphones do not always have this option “out of the box.” And it’s nice that you share your experience in terms of filming, because there is a risk of earning even more money from your competitors)
evkov
I don’t know, on iOS everything works for me through an adapter like this and a regular genius buttonhole. It works in video recording mode, or if you just write a voice through a voice recorder.
Kami
So. If in a frame 2 people sitting next to each other record sound through the heel, will the person sitting next to them interfere and not ruin the recording? Then it's probably better to record the gun through a microphone?
Bestwedfilm, photo and video services in Balti, Moldova
Is it possible to connect a mixing console to a smartphone using this adapter?
Aerial photography Chelyabinsk flight video
good review, tell me how to understand whether a lavalier or bluetooth headphones with a microphone will work on a smartphone, I have a Samsung A5 2016. I wanted to buy bluetooth headphones with a microphone so that they work when I shoot a video, but I couldn’t connect anything, tell me what to do? Is this buttonhole suitable for my phone audio-technica atr3350″
Aleksandr Vladimirovich
firstly, I can only say for the lg l65 (I haven’t tried it on other phones), secondly, I bought a different adapter at a radio parts store (on one side there are 3.5 to 4 pins, on the other there are 2 inputs (there is a picture above each) : for a microphone and for headphones), thirdly, I connect the microphone to the adapter (I put it in the camera position, since it doesn’t work in “smartphone” mode) and headphones, then I connect it to the phone. After this, an icon for the connected headset should appear on the phone.
advanced marketing
interesting topic! Lenovo a6010 smartphone. Your topic is relevant for me right now. I'm trying to figure out how to use an external microphone to record the sound of voice and speech, but it doesn't work.
Maybe you can tell me something?
Factorydemon
Good afternoon! Awesome topic, I would be glad to see more videos on similar topics. But then questions arose about microphones: while watching a part of the story demonstrating voice recording on different microphones, you do not indicate where exactly the sound was recorded. It is clear that under the same conditions, but where exactly? In room? Yes, it was interesting to compare the sound in relatively ideal conditions, but using a mobile device means being prepared to record a report in less than ideal conditions. For example, go out with friends to the park for a concert or a picnic and unexpectedly meet someone and interview him, for example. And it’s not clear how external microphones will perform in such situations? It would be nice if, say, Ilya, standing in windy weather or next to a noise source, tried to speak some phrases into these microphones. Indeed, in the proposed tests (in my unprofessional opinion), cheap microphones under ideal conditions show basically identical results. Well, it cannot be that in “extreme” shooting conditions, audio equipment does not stand out in any way against the background of microphones below 500 rubles. And, you see, they don’t use smartphone photography to record something under ideal conditions—that’s what computers are for.
Ilya Korneychuk
+factorydemon the better the recorder, the more audible the difference will be, but a good announcer + an average microphone will win over a bad announcer and the best microphone in the world.
Factorydemon
+Ilya Korneychuk thank you! I just liked the idea of quickly recording, say, a podcast in the field using a smartphone. I never suspected that this was possible before. Thanks to your story, I’m beginning to understand that in combination with a smartphone + microphone, it’s not worth spending money on the latter
aver812
What should I type in the search for an adapter from jack to microphone to stereo? I can’t find it anywhere in online stores, although I understand that it must be cheap.
To do this, you will need a computer with the Windows 8 or 10 operating system installed, a USB cable, a client application and the necessary drivers on both the Android device and the PC. Before installing applications, perform USB debugging.
- Go to Settings. Expand For developers. Check the box USB Debugging.
- Click OK to enable debugging.
Now you need to install a client application, for example WO Mic.
If you connect via USB cable doesn't work, use a wireless connection. But at the same time, the PC and mobile device must be within the same network, that is, they must be connected to the same network WiFi.
- Connect both devices to the same source WiFi and run the application WO Mic on a tablet/smartphone and on a computer.
- In the mobile client settings, select a connection WiFi.
- Click the button Start("Begin").
- An IP address will appear above the microphone icon, which should be entered in the client program settings on PC.
- Click the button Connection("Compound").
- Touch the button Connect(“Connect”)
Download WO Mic
On Google Play || Download the WO Mic app
Windows ||
In this guide you will learn how to easily set up your phone to use it as a microphone! To do this, you will need an Android device, a USB cable and a Windows PC.
Wo Mic Installation
Install the application, and also enable “USB Debugging” (Settings->For Developers->Enable USB Debugging).
You need to install the application client on your Android device and on your PC, as well as drivers for x32/86 and x64 systems.
The application allows you to use your Android device as a microphone for Windows or Mac (via Wi-Fi only), via a USB connection, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi (within the same network).
Once you launch the client, all you have to do is choose the method that suits you.
If suddenly you are unable to connect via cable, try wireless connections, according to the comments on the application, this helps.
Video instruction
Connection via USB connection
Connect your device to the USB 2.0 port using the appropriate cable, as a rule it is included in the kit :)Launch the Wo Mic application client on PC and Android, select “USB connection” in the mobile version settings and click “Start” - the microphone icon will turn green. Meanwhile, in the PC client, click "Connection" and select "Connect" from the drop-down menu. From the menu that appears, select USB and click OK.
If everything works and the connection is established, the message “Connected” will appear in the lower corner of the client PC.
Connection via Wi-Fi connection
Wireless connection is only possible within the same network! In other words, the PC and Android must be connected to the same router or access point.Connect both devices to the same access point and launch the Wo Mic app client on both devices. In the mobile client settings, select Wi-Fi connection type and click Start. An IP Address will appear above the microphone icon, which must be entered in the client PC settings.
To do this, go to the client PC settings "Connection->Connect" and select the Wi-Fi item and simply retype the received IP. Along with the dots!
That's all! Now your smartphone works as a full-fledged microphone! Now you can launch Skype or any other program and check if it works. Don't forget to select "Wo Mic microphone" as your recording device in Windows settings and program settings.
