# Microphone issue

**URL:** <https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/microphone-issue/35752>\
**Category:** Builder\
**Created:** [July 18, 2023, 4:16pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/microphone-issue/35752 "2023-07-18T16:16:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Emeline\_Fhr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.psychopy.org/emeline_fhr/32/38595_2.png) [@Emeline\_Fhr](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/Emeline_Fhr)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 4:16pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/microphone-issue/35752/1 "2023-07-18T16:16:26Z")

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**OS** (e.g. Win10): win 10  
**PsychoPy version** (e.g. 1.84.x): 2023.1.3

Hello everybody  
I’m having troubles with the microphone component. I need it to record participants’ answers.

At first, with my own experiment, the folder with recording files was empty. However, names of the files would appear in the Excel sheet.  
I then tried to run the demo with the microphone to see where the problem could occur. Here, I have the recorded files but they are completely silent.

I’ve checked everything ; authorizations , devices, and so on.  
I tried to play around the parameters, when the sample rate is ‘DVD audio’ my experiment and the demo are running, otherwise it crashes with the message : [Error ‘Stream’ object has no attribute ‘handle’]

I saw that I’m not the only one having this problem, I’ve tried to fix it following previous solutions but nothing.

Thank you for your help

Em’

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**Author:** ![Chen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.psychopy.org/chen/32/38825_2.png) [@Chen](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/Chen)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 9:07pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/microphone-issue/35752/2 "2023-07-18T21:07:05Z")

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Hello,  
Can you please share your project?

Thanks,  
Chen

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**Author:** ![Emeline\_Fhr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.psychopy.org/emeline_fhr/32/38595_2.png) [@Emeline\_Fhr](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/Emeline_Fhr)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 8:20am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/microphone-issue/35752/3 "2023-07-19T08:20:33Z")

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Good morning Chen

Thank you for your answer  
Sure, please 🙂

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