How to use AM8PROT for voice recognition?
Windows
Turn on "Sound Settings" and set "FIFINE Microphone" as the default input device.
Click the "Start" button and select "Settings" (or use the shortcut “Windows + I”).
Select Time and Language.
Click the "Voice" option.
Click the "Start" button to start the voice recognition wizard. The wizard will guide you through the setup process.
Follow the wizard's instructions to test the microphone and ensure the voice recognition system can hear you.
You can choose to activate speech recognition by using a shortcut key (e.g., Windows+Ctrl+S) or a voice command (e.g., "Start Listening").
Mac
Open "System Preferences."
Locate and click the "Keyboard" icon.
Click on the "Dictation" TAB.
Check the box next to "Dictation" to enable dictation.
Choose a language and microphone: Here, you can choose a language for dictation and choose the FIFINE microphone as the input device. Then set the shortcut key to activate speech recognition according to your needs.
More details are in our blog: How to set up any FIFINE microphones for voice recognition?
How to solve if AM8PROT changes the volume automatically on Discord/Skype?
Two solutions use more. Want more details? Go browse our blog:
Solution One:
Right-click “This PC”, choose “Properties”, click “Control Panel”, search for “Sound”, and click it.
Click the “Recording Devices” tab and right-click the microphone being used.
Choose “Properties” and click the “Advanced” tab. Make sure you uncheck the box “Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device”❌.
Then click the “Communications” tab and choose the option “Do nothing.”
Solution Two (For those who use Skype):
Click “Tools” on the top, click “Options”, go to “Audio settings”, and don’t choose the “Automatically adjust microphone settings” option❌.
How to use multiple microphones on one computer?
It's recommended to use them in XLR mode with a multi-channel audio mixer. If you want to have a try, just check it out:
For Windows, we suggest you do it via VoiceMeeter Banana or ASIO4ALL.
VoiceMeeter Banana allows 3 inputs at most, but you cannot separate the recording tracks. ASIO4ALL, which has no limitation on the number of inputs, is only accessible on some of the recording software, such as FL Studio.
VoiceMeeter Banana
Open the Voice Meeter, select different microphones under different “Hardware Input” channels.
Click on a recording program, under preferences, choose the Voice Meeter as the input source.
ASIO4ALL
Open up DAW, go to its preferences. Set the audio device to ASIO and ASIO4All v2.
Open up the ASIO4ALL panel (you can find the ASIO4ALL driver in the right corner of the computer). In the panel, you need to click to activate the little power buttons beside the USB mics that you are going to use.
Start a new track. Hit the record, you are up and running with multiple mics at the same time now.
For Mac, use MIDI Audio Setup.
Open the “Audio MIDI Setup”, create your own “Aggregate Device” list by clicking the checkbox of all the "USB PnP Audio Device" under the "IN' list.
Go to “Garageband”, check out the “Preferences”, and you will want the “Audio Input” to be the “Aggregate Device” that you have just created.
Click the plus button to add a new track. A menu will pop up, just select an input that is marked as "input+one figure" (one figure represents a mono microphone; two figures for a stereo microphone), such as "input 1".
Create another track and choose an input different from the first one, such as "input 2". Now two tracks are set and ready to go.
To make sure that you can pause the recording of any one of the mics separately, you need a recording button for each microphone track. Click “Track” < “Track Header” < “Show record enable button”. Then click on these buttons on each track, and they will flash a red light.
Check out the step-by-step tutorial from one of our blogs: How to Use Multiple Microphones on One Computer