Summary
Plasma 6.7.0 adds mic playback so you can hear yourself while adjusting levels.
No more guesswork—stop worrying about blasting others or being too quiet on new installs.
Confirmed in This Week in Plasma, which should land in a few months.
As much as I hate hearing myself over a microphone, I have to admit that listening to yourself while adjusting your mic volume is vital. That way, you know you’re not coming through too quietly or too loudly, and you can get a feel for the audio quality, too. Windows has had this feature for a while now, but unfortunately, KDE Plasma won’t let you.
Fortunately, that’s getting fixed pretty soon. A new patch note for KDE Plasma 6.7.0 confirms that, once it releases, we’ll be able to hear our own microphone when adjusting the volume.
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KDE Plasma 6.7.0 will take the guesswork out of setting your microphone levels
No more worrying that you’ll destroy everyone’s eardrums
The KDE community announced the feature over on This Week in Plasma. If you’re not sure what that is, the KDE community rifle through the Plasma GitHub logs and pluck out the biggest and best changes confirmed for each version. KDE Plasma 6.7.0 won’t release for a few months now, but we’re already seeing some amazing features that I can’t wait to have on my PC.
The star of the show for this week is a new feature that lets you listen to your own microphone as you talk:
Implemented a feature that lets you record yourself with your microphone and play it back, making it easy to tell when the recording level is too high or too low. Then you can adjust the level until it’s just right. (Ramil Nurmanov, KDE Bugzilla #435256)
Honestly, this will remove the guesswork I have whenever I install a new Linux distro with Plasma. I can never remember what my microphone levels were, and I’m afraid I’ll hurt someone’s ears if I enter a voice call too loudly.
There are a ton of other features and fixes mentioned in this week’s digest, spanning different versions of Plasma. As such, if you want the full low-down, be sure to head over to the blog and check out everything the KDE team has been working on.
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