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Fix Zoom Meeting Not Allowing Computer Audio

Fix Zoom Meeting Not Allowing Computer Audio

Posted on August 11, 2020 by Madalina Dinita 11 Comments

What can be more annoying than realizing your computer’s speaker and microphone are not connected to Zoom Meeting? You joined the respective video conference eager to share useful information with all the participants but there’s no audio. You can’t hear them or they can’t hear you.

Maybe you already tested your audio connection before the meeting started by clicking the Test Computer Audio link and everything worked just fine.

Test Computer Audio zoom

Don’t panic, we’re here to help you out. Follow the instructions in this troubleshooting guide and you should be able to quickly solve this Zoom audio problem.

Zoom Meeting No Computer Audio Fix

Preliminary checks:

  • Make sure to click on the Join with computer audio button. In this manner, you allow Zoom Meeting to connect to your computer’s speaker and microphone.

Useful tip: If you always connect to Zoom using your computer’s speaker and microphone, you can enable the option to Automatically join audio by computer when joining a meeting, and you won’t need to grant Zoom access to your speaker and mic every time you join a new conference.

  • Check the speaker and microphone volume and ensure it’s audible.
  • Make sure your audio devices are properly connected and are not muted.
  • Disable Bluetooth. If your computer is connected to an external audio device via Bluetooth, resetting the connection might help. If the respective device is in another room, you won’t hear it. Disabling Bluetooth will automatically switch audio input and output sources to your computer’s built-in speaker and microphone.
  • Change the output source and use a different speaker, if possible. Maybe your speaker suddenly stopped working.
  • Use a different input device, a different microphone if you’ve got one at hand. Maybe your mic is not working properly.

If the issue persists or you don’t have a second speaker or microphone to test with, here are two useful troubleshooting methods that may save the day.

1. Run Windows 10’s built-in troubleshooters

Windows 10 features a series of useful built-in troubleshooters that you can use to automatically fix various computer issues with a single click.

Since we’re talking about Zoom audio bugs on computers, we recommend running the following troubleshooter as a first troubleshooting method: Speech, Playing Audio, Recording Audio, and Bluetooth if you’re using Bluetooth connected speakers and microphones.

To run these troubleshooters, open the Settings page → go to Update & Security → Troubleshoot → select and run the four troubleshooters one by one.

windows 10 built-in audio troubleshooter

2. Check your privacy settings

Windows 10 lets you control which apps and programs can access your microphone and camera. This option is part of Microsoft’s privacy strategy whereby the company gave Windows 10 users more control over their private data.

If Zoom is not allowed to use your microphone, the other video conference meeting participants won’t be able to hear you. Make sure Zoom audio access is enabled on your machine.

  1. Open the Settings app and go to Privacy
  2. Scroll down to App permission, select Microphone
  3. Go to Allow desktop apps to access your microphonewindows 10 microphone access privacy settings desktop apps
  4. Turn on microphone access for desktop apps.

There you go, we hope the solutions listed in this guide helped you to fix your Zoom audio problems on Windows 10.

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Comments

  1. Mike says

    December 16, 2020 at 9:16 pm

    I can’t hear anything in a zoom meeting. Test speakers gives no sound even though I can see the blue line when it’s playing the test sound. Speakers and wired headset work fine on everything else, music files video files, system sounds are all fine but nothing in zoom. I have exclusive control of audio OFF as noted. No Bluetooth on this system that I can see. Win 7 Pro ion a ThinkPad. I’ll test with some other ThinkPads that i have.

  2. SB says

    December 7, 2020 at 9:13 am

    Was having issue where Zoom would not play from laptop speakers only headset.
    To Fix check Settings -> Sound -> Advanced sound options -> App Volume device preferences.

    Select your preferred Device under “Output” then adjust below as needed. Mine had Zoom set to mute for Settings, Zoom and Zoom Meetings.

  3. David Ramos says

    December 1, 2020 at 8:05 pm

    Thank you Susan K, i fixed it with your instructions. BR David

  4. Marlene says

    November 9, 2020 at 5:28 pm

    I am experiencing trouble connecting to audio. when i test the audio , i dont hear anything and my mic isnt working either. I restarted the computer and now it’s working, but it was so frustrating because i was late to my university course :(

  5. Susan K says

    November 9, 2020 at 6:59 am

    I think I’ve found the fix, at least in Windows 10.
    In the audio troubleshooting (Settings – Update and Security – Troubleshoot – Playing audio -)
    Select the device (headset), open audio enhancement, and unclick where it says allow programmes to have exclusive use (the wording is not quite that, but now that I’ve disabled that setting, I can’t see it!)
    I can now use my headphones in a zoom meeting, and hear the music I’m playing. Eureka!!
    Hope this helps others.

  6. Susan K says

    November 9, 2020 at 4:06 am

    I’m having the exact same problem as others here. It’s only a recent change. When using bluetooth headset before, I had no problem, quite the opposite, everything worked well, I could share audio (advanced sharing – computer sound only) and speak over the top and everything really clear. Now, I can connnect with my headset in Zoom (audio settings checks all OK), but cannot hear any music I play. It goes completely silent. I’ve made a recording and have seen that at the other end my music and voice can be heard, but I can’t hear the music. As soon as I leave Zoom with the music still playing I hear it just fine. Makes no difference if music is playing before I open a Zoom meeting, or if I start to play after starting the meeting.
    This is very strange, as it’s a relatively new glitch. I hadn’t used my headphones with zoom for a while, so it looks like this has happened sometime at the end of September?
    Any help will be much appreciated.

  7. Marianne says

    October 21, 2020 at 2:48 pm

    I am having the same issue. It happens when I am using Bluetooth headphones from Plantronics and without headphones using the built in speakers/mic. My audio is functioning properly in Google Meet, Webex and Bluejeans (I have tried them all!), but Zoom will not work. I must use phone audio to listen and be heard. I ran all the troubleshooting tips above. This started happening a couple of weeks ago. I cannot figure it out!

  8. Karen says

    October 17, 2020 at 9:42 pm

    I am having the same problem and it started just today. My mic is working just fine where everyone can hear me, but I cannot hear anything. I have only had this computer for 2 weeks, so I am more inclined to believe that something is happening on a software. However, I have also checked my device drivers and they are all updated as wll.

  9. Jen says

    October 8, 2020 at 7:32 am

    Very similar issues, sound works perfectly but not in zoom. Have uninstall app (win10), reboot, reinstall and reboot again. Nothing. I can get sound on everything else (youtube, games, etc), but cannot hear anything on Zoom. No changes to computer, this started to happen one day ago, a bit challenging to deal with since the PC is being used for online learning. Any other ideas as to what can be done to fix it?

  10. James says

    September 30, 2020 at 9:53 pm

    Michael,

    I’m having the exact same issue and cannot figure out how to resolve it. As soon as I end the meeting it comes right back on. I was hosting a meeting tonight and this occurred, they could hear me and each other just fine, as well as the screen shared content’s audio, however I could not hear them or my computer audio when screen sharing. All my settings are correct on a computer level and within Zoom. I’m using a Bose headset for both “speakers” and the mic. I’m having trouble finding out how to fix this online.

  11. Michael says

    September 28, 2020 at 10:33 pm

    Zoom isn’t capturing my computer’s audio when sharing my screen or just my computer audio. It’s capturing my voice just fine, but no sounds coming from my computer. I am not able to play videos or music that the other people in my meeting can hear.

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