Rosetta Stone/Internal Mic not working

Thanks for all these suggestions, none of them worked on Rosetta Stone Version 4 on Mac v10.6.

Here's the key: only one user can be logged in at one time. Once I logged out all the other users everything worked as expected.

TheProfessor101's solution worked perfectly for me. I'm running Lion and RS v4 and my internal iMac mic wasn't working while I had a 2nd user logged onto the computer. Logged them out and now it works just fine.

Hi Questionmarc, I downloaded the 2 apps you mentioned and set them up per your suggestion. Hower RS V3 preferences just won't let me select a microphone.... the selection drop down is blank. Do you have any additional suggestion? I am using iMAC with MAC OS

I have a Macbook Pro and i use a blue snowball mic, USB mic, and when i use my rosetta stone, it can not reconize my mic. It would stink if the money i spent for Rosetta Stone and my mic doesn't work correctly. Anybody have any suggestions?

I tried a lot of stuff discussed here, finally went to Rosetta Stone via chat, they directed me to update my software to 3.4.5 which fixed everything and all mics work fine with no issues, Give it a try. For mac go to support.rosettastone.com then select updates, then downloads the mac update 3.4.5

I tried everything before updating to 3.4.5. Nothing worked. It wouldn't see any microphones. I upgraded to 3.4.5 and my built-in on my MBP works fine.

To get it to work with my Mac mini, I attached a webcam. Again, before the upgrade, nothing. Afterwards, everything worked fine.

Quick update. Thanks for all the help. The Apple forum is the best.

Can someone please give screen shot of what the microphone screen looks like if you have it working. It only allows shows me 1 mic to select the internal( if no headphones are in) or the external built in (if headphones are in) This is quite possibly the most aggrovating thing.

Pickle Pumpers' solution worked for us, but we had to do it a little differently. My wife's MacBook would not show a "Line In" unless a microphone was attached. So she had to attach a USB mic, set that mic as the OS X default input, set the external mic to mute (using a hardware mute button on the device itself), and then restart Rosetta Stone (because it freaked out and showed no mics at all), and then she was able to select the built-in mic from within Rosetta. After that it worked perfectly.

Her problem was that Rosetta was stuttering very badly on the recording of her spoken words. For example, if she said "hola", the program would record her as saying something like "ola-la-la" (with static thrown in) and would buzz her as saying it incorrectly every single time.

With the above fix, it seems to work perfectly. We just hope it sticks.

I was having the same issue with my internal mic and stuttering in RS. Fortunately just going to my system Pref and switching the I/O to the USB mic solved it cleanly. Only downside to that is I have to go back and change everything after every use so I can run my DAW's correctly

Staer, thank you so much! After 30 minutes of frustration trying everyone else's solution, it turned out my problem was the same as yours.

I am running RS 4.4.15 and OSX 10.7.4 - RS was not recognizing my internal mic, even though System Pref showed it was working fine. I have myself and another user account on my computer, and both were logged in. I logged the other one out, and now RS recognizes my interal mic again. The odd thing about this is, the other user does not have an RS account, and was not running RS while the problem occured.

I am just so glad I found a solution in under an hour! Thanks!

i downloaded both soundflower and linein and rosetta stone still doesnt recognize my internal microphone nor the external one- any suggestions? is there a certain setting my macbook air has to be set at?

For what it is worth to the community, I am on 10.8.2 and RS 4.5.5. I had the same problem with the internal mic not being recognized by RS. System preferences showed internal mic working fine. I logged off the other users, and *yeah* RS recognized the internal MIC. Bit of a pain, but it now works!

Alex: Thanks for your tip. What had happened to me was that I had started upgrading RS under my admin account and was trying to run it as my unprivileged account and the daemon had started as admin. I quit the updater, logged out of admin, and when I relaunched RS in my unprivileged account, it worked. Thanks.

(FWIW, I was trying to use the RS-supplied USB headset. However, the cause of the issue was the same rosettastonedaemon)

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Just want to add that if anyone is having troubles with playback sounding garbled when listening to speech recognition to try another web browser. I have the latest Totale as of Dec 2012 and when using Chrome my speech input sounded garbled with a robotic echo. When I switched using totale with Firefox or Safari everything sounded much better. Remember when in the recording session to also right click in the main page area and adjust and click "settings" to adjust the mic for input if neccessary. Under Adobe Flash Player Settings I have the mic input at a little over 50% with "reduce echo" checked. Under "System Preferences" for my macbook I have the mic input at about 75% when I use my apple earbuds with mic. When I use the built in mic I set the mic input to 100%

I am using Rosetta Stone 3.4.5 - (23970) on my Mac Pro 10.7.5. My issue is I am unable to get past the mic setup. The very first time I ran it to set up my Logitech H540 headset, the setup proceded normally until I tried to use RS. Then it did not work. Now when I come back to try to run RS, I am directed to mic setup and it freezes on the Audio Set up screen. The USB mic is selectable but when it moves to the screen to do the count nothing happens and I am forced to quit the program to get out of that screen.

I have tried the various fixes mentined here but to no avail. I have been on live chat with RS twice for a total of about 1 hour, they had me uninstall flash and reinstall it even though Im sure it was updated. All updates have been run in both RS and Apple SWupdates.

I am beign moved to a Tier 2 support call, but they only work Mon-Fri and the last Agent I spoke with didn't let me know that and they never sent me the email he promised. I will live chat with them this Monday January 13,2013.

If you have any other ideas please LMK.

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