Built in mic? where?

I heard the iMacs have a built in mic... where is it?

The hole on the left side is for the Ambient Light Sensor.
It automatically turns the brightness up or down, depending on the light level in the room.
Since you have now "found" the microphone and want to try it out, check out the speech recongnition built into the OS.
"Mac OS X 10.4 Help
Mac Help
Index
About speech recognition
Apple's speech recognition software allows you to control your computer and applications using spoken commands. You can use spoken commands to open applications, choose menu items, email friends in your Address Book, and much more. A number of commands, or speakable items, are already created for you. You can also create your own commands and add them to the Speakable Items folder.
Use the Speech Recognition pane of Speech preferences to turn speech recognition on, set up how to signal your computer that you're speaking a command, create commands for applications, and open the Speakable Items folder.
When you turn on speech recognition, a round speech feedback window appears on your desktop. This window shows which key you need to press or keyword you need to speak to signal that you're about to speak a command. The pop-up menu at the bottom of the speech feedback window provides quick access to Speech preferences and the Speech Commands window.
If your computer has a built-in microphone, you can speak commands using the built-in microphone. If you have more than one microphone, speech recognition selects the one it uses in this order: external USB microphone, external analog microphone, built-in microphone."

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Greetings everyone ! Lemme start by saying I genuinely feel guilty when my first ever forum post is about a problem/issue, but apparently it's my curse, lol. Per standard rules, I did search through the Edge listing for a solution to my issue, but no luck. So:
The E531 has one headphone jack, however it's apparently intended use is for headSETS ('phones/mic combo). Currently, my only interest for the port is standard headphones. However, there is an issue: when a pair of standard headphones are plugged in, the built-in mic is disabled so the mic on a headset can be used.
Is there a setting or config change anywhere in the E531 that would allow the built-in mic to be used when standard headphones are plugged in to the headset jack? I've played around with audio settings as far as I dare to. Please, any help would be greatly apreciated.
edit: I'm not sure how my Subject line got completely reworded, but I've changed it to suit my topic. Sorry for the confusion.

There is definitely something strange here. I tried to reproduce your issue and if I plug headphones or headset I can still switch the microphone and speakers under Control Panel>Sound.
Have you got the latest sound card drivers?
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Stop the built-in mic's input level from decreasing during videochat?

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I have seen a couple of threads on this now.
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Built-in mic failure on my new iPhone 3G

Wondering if any one else has seen this issue:
For about 4 or 5 hours this past saturday, I had a one-way audio issue on all my phone calls; where I can hear them but they cannot hear me!
It occured on all incoming and outgoing calls during this 5 hour period.
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No built in mic for the 6G - but you can record voice memos with a compatible head phone + mic set.
As for which is better thats a personal choice.
Nano's offer fitness data tracking (Built in pedometer and Nike+) where as the shuffle doesnt.
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Built in mic doesn't work on Envy X2

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It seems my built in mic is not working on my iMac 2.7 GHz with Intel Core 15.
I am running OS X 10.9.3
The first option under Audio Devices is
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Master volume is all the way to the right, Value = 1 and dB = 12. Mute and Thru are unchecked.
The second option is
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The speakers are working fine. I noticed the microphone issue when trying to use Facetime, iMovie and GarageBand. During Facetime, I can hear my caller, but they cannot hear me. In GarageBand, I am unable to record vocals. In iMovie, I am unable to record any voiceovers.
I have tried plugging in an iRig mic as well, but it does not work on the iMac, but works fine on my iPad Air.
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Thank you in advance for any help.

See https://discussions.apple.com/message/18712084#18712084
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When I bought this computer (sep-09) everything was working fine. Then in march (I hade it idle for awhile), my built in mic stopped working.
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I am using win 7 home pre, but the issues started when I was using Vista. Now I am out of ideas, and my friends on Skype grows tired of not hearing me.
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After using apogee duet, mac's built in mic & logic's track headers for recording are not working properly. How do I fix it?

I use logic 9
After using apogee duet for mac, I was away from my home studio without the duet and wanted to record vocals via the internal microphone on my mac book pro. (Obviously, I know it wouldn’t be the same quality. I wanted to do it as a draft, because I had a melody in my head and wanted to record it so I could remember it later.)
After opening up a project I was unable to record audio. I noticed the track headers had changed. Sometimes the “record ready” button was missing. But whether it was there or wasn’t, the same thing kept happening… After pressing the “record button” or the “record ready” button a window would pop up that said, “No input source selected!” I tried to trouble shoot by configuring track header and by going to prefereces>audio>devices>core audio, and switched the “input device” to “built in microphone,” and things like that, but I still would get the same pop up window indicating “no input source selected.” To be thorough, in preferences under “core audio,” I have selected universal track mode, 24 bit recording, and software monitoring.
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I want to record from the built-in mic and I did and there was a obvious record patten on the basic track.
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I checked the speaker levels and raised them to maximum in both the GB and my computer.
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I got it to work in Guitar track Midi.
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BDAqua. Thank you very much for your concern about my problem, but I just solved it! Or better, an Apple technician helped me. It was just a misunderstanding. There is no built-in mic in a mac mini, but an audio-in ("entrada de áudio") and and audio-out ("saída de áudio").
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Having finally setup my new Acer TimelineX i am now to the tweaking stage and stuck with the built in mic, the playback is awful, it crackles. Any suggestions please ?
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Hi,
Please try the following steps first:
Right click the speaker icon (bottom right),
Select Recording devices
Right click "Internal Microphone Array"
Enable it,
Click Ok/Apply
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BH
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