Speaker volume seems unreliable - cutting in and out

sometimes callers have a hard time to hear me, my volume is cutting in and out. It is not a question of reception. It is almost as if the speakers or microphone goes into some kind of sleep mode and takes a while to wake up after I start speaking.
Any idea why that could be?

There are curves, but not in the middle of the portion of the track I was listening to. If I were to listen to the same portion on my old iBook, no problem but the iMac is the only one presenting the issue. However, when I listen to the track playback over headphones connected to the iMac, the track's volume is fine.

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