Hearing your own voice echo back through your headset
Your microphone is feeding its own audio back into your headphones. Go to your sound settings and turn down the microphone level or disable microphone monitoring. If that's already off, the microphone might be physically too close to the speakers.
Echo happens when your microphone picks up its own audio output. Sound settings in most cases have a Microphone monitoring or loopback setting that causes this. Turning it off fixes the problem.
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Skip — I just want a technicianCommon mistakes to avoid
- Not knowing that microphone monitoring is a feature that needs to be turned off
- Turning up microphone volume to compensate for low volume instead of addressing echo
Signs you need professional help
- If you've turned off monitoring and lowered the microphone level but echo still happens, give us a call.
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