Bug 1945418 - Bad microphone sound quality
Summary: Bad microphone sound quality
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pipewire
Version: 34
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Wim Taymans
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-03-31 21:43 UTC by Meinert Schwartau
Modified: 2022-06-08 01:08 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2022-06-08 01:08:47 UTC
Type: Bug
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2021-03-31 21:43 UTC, Meinert Schwartau
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Description Meinert Schwartau 2021-03-31 21:43:23 UTC
Created attachment 1768174 [details]
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Created attachment 1768174 [details]
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Created attachment 1768174 [details]
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Description of problem:
I own a Lenovo ThinkPad P15 Gen1. When I try to use Zoom or Skype using the internal microphone, different persons said that the sound quality is very (and unusable) bad. There is some acoustic noise. I verified that by having a 1:1 phone call with my wife. After that I tested it using an external Blue Yeti X microphone. This improved the quality (the acoustic noise disappeared), but it still was not good, Using the same microphones in Windows leads to much better results.  


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 34 Silverblue Beta  
Version: 34.20210330.n.0 (2021-03-30T08:09:55Z)

How reproducible:
Video Chat per Skype or Zoom using their apps from flathub


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download the native Zoom or Skype app from flathub 
2. Open a video or voice only call via the app
3. Select internal micro and internal speakers

Actual results:
The person with whom I have a phone call says that I sound bad and that there is some noise.

Expected results:
The sound quality should not be worse as if another os (like windows) is used

Additional info:
For version of libs see attached file

Current Fedora Silverblue version:
● ostree://fedora:fedora/34/x86_64/silverblue
                   Version: 34.20210330.n.0 (2021-03-30T08:09:55Z)
                BaseCommit: bcfb7ca96df484b3b42768a265a2429d3e4d6b95bdd000fb744da41f72dca47d
              GPGSignature: Valid signature by 8C5BA6990BDB26E19F2A1A801161AE6945719A39
           LayeredPackages: akmod-nvidia fedora-workstation-repositories podman-compose
                            xorg-x11-drv-nvidia zsh
             LocalPackages: rpmfusion-nonfree-release-34-0.2.noarch
                            rpmfusion-free-release-34-0.3.noarch

Note that it isn‘t a fresh install. Instead I installed Fedora silverblue 33 some weeks ago and upgraded to 34 Beta

Comment 1 yasharjitm10 2021-04-05 04:51:43 UTC
I don't know if I should open a new bug for this but I can also reproduce this problem on Google Meet, Jitsi Meet and Gnome's Sound Recorder App.

This is the version of pipewire:
$ rpm -qa | grep pipewire
pipewire0.2-libs-0.2.7-5.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-0.3.24-4.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-libs-0.3.24-4.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-alsa-0.3.24-4.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-gstreamer-0.3.24-4.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-jack-audio-connection-kit-0.3.24-4.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.24-4.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-utils-0.3.24-4.fc34.x86_64

Comment 2 satyam 2021-06-28 18:30:21 UTC
Same with me.

➜  ~ rpm -qa | grep pipewire
pipewire0.2-libs-0.2.7-5.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-libs-0.3.30-4.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-0.3.30-4.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-alsa-0.3.30-4.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-gstreamer-0.3.30-4.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-jack-audio-connection-kit-0.3.30-4.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-utils-0.3.30-4.fc34.x86_64

Comment 3 yasharjitm10 2021-06-28 18:38:47 UTC
Forgot to revert back and tell my results. 

(In reply to satyam from comment #2)
> Same with me.
> 
> ➜  ~ rpm -qa | grep pipewire
> pipewire0.2-libs-0.2.7-5.fc34.x86_64
> pipewire-libs-0.3.30-4.fc34.x86_64
> pipewire-0.3.30-4.fc34.x86_64
> pipewire-alsa-0.3.30-4.fc34.x86_64
> pipewire-gstreamer-0.3.30-4.fc34.x86_64
> pipewire-jack-audio-connection-kit-0.3.30-4.fc34.x86_64
> pipewire-utils-0.3.30-4.fc34.x86_64

You may want to check your sound input slider in the sound settings. It was at 100% by default on a fresh fedora 34 install. But when I put that slider at about 25-35%, I didn't get the bad microphone audio quality problem again. 

You may want to adjust the slider based on your preferences but keep that slider below 50%.

Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2022-05-12 16:44:18 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora Linux 34 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora Linux 34 on 2022-06-07.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
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Comment 5 Ben Cotton 2022-06-08 01:08:47 UTC
Fedora Linux 34 entered end-of-life (EOL) status on 2022-06-07.

Fedora Linux 34 is no longer maintained, which means that it
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