Recorded Audio drops off to intermittent nose

This is a desperate plea for help. I have a meeting with one
of our engineers in two hours. My plan was to bring up the
application and record his audio as he steps through the process.
When I tried it this morning I get about a minute into the
recording before the audio drops off into unintelligible noise,
sometimes coming back to a word or two of clear audio and then
dropping away again.
Has anyone encountered this and, if so, what did you do about
it?
Thanks

Hi Frank
I have nothing to offer with regards to Captivate other than
to suggest that it may behoove you to use Sound Forge to record the
audio portion (since it appears to have no trouble there) and later
import the audio Sound Forge created back into Captivate if your
goal is to create a Captivate project using said sound.
Cheers... Rick

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