I do a lot of my writing using an old NaturallySpeaking installation, running in VirtualBox. This means I am frequently opening and closing the microphone in NaturallySpeaking / VirtualBox.
In qpwgraph, I see that every time I open the microphone, the "PipeWire ALSA [VirtualBox] Capture" device disappears for a moment, and then reappears. Oddly, the capture device does not disappear when turning off the mic -- even when dictation is paused in NaturallySpeaking, capture device remains active and connected. It's only when re-enabling dictation that the device blips out. This wouldn't be a problem, except that the noise level from the headset microphone is really not quite usable, and seems to be getting worse. I would like to insert some audio processing between the hardware mic device and this capture device. But I can't, because every time the capture thingy gets re-created, it resets to default connections. So any other software I put in the middle gets disconnected. Best way to deal with this? I guess a session manager could be an option, but I don't need it to control anything except for the specific software/devices. (Never needed a session manager before, so I'm unfamiliar with different tools strengths/weaknesses.) Or, my SuperCollider script needs to monitor the connection status continuously? TIA, James -- ubuntu-studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
