Gnome-Voice-Control: Stuck on Calibration

Hello Ben,

Thank you for your report. I have heard about this problem, and I'll see with upstream developers if it is fixed, and if it's a bug in gnome-voice-control, or something else.

As a workaround, I might suggest this from comment #10 from bug 219303:

"I finally managed to fix this other bug : when recording with Audacity, it appeared than only the left channel was recorded. After some changes in the volume mixer, Audacity recorded then both left and right channel, and Voice Control has now its normal behavior (Init -> Calibration -> Ready)."

I'm sorry for this inconvenience.

Hey Saša,

Thanks for the quick reply. I have looked into this work around but unfortunately "Audacity" is not working either and I'm not really sure what settings to change to make it work. The Simple "Sound Recorder" does work however so I know my microphone is working.. I think obviously these two problems are related as someone got there "Gnome Voice Control" to work after changing settings for "Audacity".

The problem with "Audacity" for me is that when I try to record, both the channels both appear as if they are recording but they are just straight lines going across the page as the recording continues. They are not detecting any input from the microphone? Hmm very strange.

Thanks again.

Hello Ben,

As far as I can see, the problem might be that your sound card is
recording only left channel, when it's recording in mono. Try right
clicking on Volume control, then open the controls. Click on Settings.
I have a "Mix mono" switch to select. That maybe enables mixing of
both left and right channel into one, when recording in mono. Also,
check with other sound devices. Some of theme have two volume controls
for recording, so maybe one of them is muted.

My volume control doesn't have a settings button on it so I'm not to sure where to find this "Mix Mono" button? This is what my volume control looks like...

Thanks again!

Also I don't know if this would help..

Hello Ben,

Look under the recording tab for the muted channel. Also, check out
the options inside File menu. I switched to 8.10 alpha 3 last night,
and the volume control is a bit different. I suppose there should be
options or settings under the File menu. Try changing the devices and
see if any of the recording controls are muted.

Unrelated to this, I'll switch this bug report to a question, since I
don't think this actually qualifies as a bug. We'll see if we need to
open another bug report and against which program after we solve your
problem.

I think this is not a bug. Some setting should be changed in volume control to fix this. After the problem is solved, we can open another bug report for this, in case it's really a bug.

Hi,

The sound is just a nightmare on Ubuntu. I love Ubuntu, don't get me wrong but anything to do with sound is just a minefield.

Why on earth are the so many different sound setups I.e OSS, ALSA, Pulse Audio.. It is more than confusing to set this all up correctly. I don't understand why Ubuntu don't just have one main sound setup that just works with everything and thats that. It is all to over complicated and frustrating as once you get something working with the sound another thing goes wrong..

The same is said for the program "Jack Control" which doesn't seem to work but its just not very user friendly and is more trouble than its worth.

fiddled around with lots of different settings and still nothing with Audacity. never mind, thanks for your help anyway!

I'm sorry I can't help you. Maybe someone else will see this question and will be able to help you. Good luck.

Damned!!! Same problem!
I don't know why! I tested my sound card with audacity. I recorded a simple voice file and I listened my voice in both channels (also I see the 2 channels graphic bars when I speak)!
But calibration, hanging up.... :((
Advices please?

Hello Ben and newuser,

Are you maybe using 64-bit system? I found out that the calibration is a bit buggy on those systems.

Yep I am using AMD64bit .. ahhh ok fair enough.

Cheers!

This bug can be followed on upstream bug tracker [1].

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474376

yes, me too 64bit!!
Thank you for your link, Sasa but I chated in irc channel with nickolay (gnome-voice-control developer) and he told me that this problem depends from audio settings! I did it but nothing! :(
So I don't understand what's the problem!!

Hey Newuser,

You said you had Audacity working.. what is your sound setup because it doesn't work on mine?

Thanks again!

Hi Ben, from system->preferences->sound:

Sound events:
sound playback: autodetect

Music and movies:
sound playback: autodetect

Audio conferencing:
Sound playback: autodetect
Sound capture: ALSA - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture

Default Mixer Track:
Device: HDA Intel (Alsa Mixer)

I hope you'll find it useful!
If you need more info ask to me!
;)
bye

some help about the hang up calibration problem on 64bit gusty ubuntu?

yep i've the same problem with karmik 64bit. The problem seems to be on 64bit os AND Intel HDA sound cards....

someone has solved?

Ι got exactly the same problem!!!

I just wanna add that I am having the same issues on an AMD64 system with nvidia chipset, running Karmic. When recording in Audacity, both channels are active. We'll see in a few days if it persists with Lucid.

Same issue with Lucid here.

Tried with Karmic and Lucid and there is no way to make it work.. Calibration for the eternity

Lucid x86_64 having the same problem here.

Why this bug was closed?

This is still an issue on all of my pc's, iv never had this program running.

9.04, 9.10, 10.04 and 10.10 are all stuck on calibration, no matter what i fiddle with.

This but also affects me.
gnome-voice-control gets stuck on "Calibration", after I chose 'Start Control'.
I'm using a Dell Inspiron 1525 - Ubuntu 10.10 - Maverick Meerkat. AMD64 build.
Version of gnome-voice-control: 0.4really0.2-0ubuntu2

Same issues with Lucid and Maverick.. So far it hasn't been fixed.