Qosmio X500 doesn't hear me using speech recognition / microphone

Hi!
I frequently use the Win7 Ultimate speech recognition function.
However since a couple of days the computer doesn't understand what I say anymore.
The built-in microphone is now very unresponsive: I have to get as close as within 10-15cm of the microphone in order to get any acceptable results. I don't know what has changed... never had any problems before.
When I try to do the voice recognition training my computer just doesn't hear me (at least it seems so)...
I don't know what to do...
Thanks for your help!
Regards
Mario

Thanks, I checked the volume setting, but it's ok. Something else must be causing this...
*Anyway this problem is SOLVED,* at least for now.
I was looking for a newer driver version but found only the original driver from 2010.
So I couldn't update but reinstall both sound and webcam drivers (I read somewhere that they are closely related to each other) and subsequently the second reinstall fixed the problem.
Mic works fine again and speech recognition too :-)

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