Can't record voice with the mic of bluetooth headphone

Anki Desktop
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Hi everyone, I just bumped into this issue that I can’t record my voice with the mic of my bluetooth headphone on macOS.

I can record voice with builtin mic of MBP. And I can even record voice with my iPhone through that fancy new stuff called “Continuity Camera”. But no luck for my bluetooth headphone. When I replayed the recorded voice in Anki, it was just silence. At the end of the supposed voice recording, there was a click-like sound.

The bluetooth headphone has been set as default input device in system settings. And I can confirm it works when I record using e.g., QuickTime Player.

I saw the same question has been asked before, like this one Bluetooth Microphone on Mac - Anki Desktop - Anki Forums. But I’m not quite sure about the proposed solution there, as I don’t see a “the other recording driver” setting in Anki preference (I’m using version 2.1.60).

Also by the way Anki is already allowed to access microphone in system Privacy & Security. The headphone is a Bose QC35, if that helps.

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Is the behaviour the same when using the Qt5 version of Anki, or the Intel Qt6 version (assuming you’re on an M1/M2 machine)?

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Oh, forgot to mention, I’m using Qt 6 version (Python 3.9.15 Qt 6.3.2 PyQt 6.3.1) on Intel machine.

Can I install Qt5 version in parallel to test it? Or do I need to uninstall Qt6 version first?

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You can put it in a different folder, or use ‘keep both’ when copying to give it a different name.

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Just tried it out. No luck. Can’t record on Qt5 version, either.

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One last thing you could try is to run the following in the debug console, then try record again:

from aqt.sound import RecordDialog
def rec(self):
  from aqt.sound import NativeMacRecorder, namedtmp
  self._recorder = NativeMacRecorder(
                namedtmp("rec.wav"),
  )
  self._recorder.start(self._start_timer)
RecordDialog._start_recording = rec

https://docs.ankiweb.net/misc.html#debug-console

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Thanks, dae. The code works, if I execute it after a fresh start of Anki. However it doesn’t work if I has already tried recording in the same Anki session and then patch the code.

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