A small application for Windows, Mac, and Linux users that will automatically unmute and fix the volume of all microphones attached to the computer.
Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 Mac OS X 10.6+ GNU/Linux Kernel 2.6+
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Mute/UnMute originally built by Matt Palmerlee November 2010 For muting and unmuting the microphone using C# on Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 Uses parts of Gustavo Franco's MixerNative AudioLib source for Windows XP and older from here:
http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/csharp/cs_graphics/sound/article.php/c10931.
And uses Ray Molenkamp's C# managed wrapper for accessing the Vista Core Audio API
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vista/CoreAudio.aspx?msg=2489276
FixMyLinuxMic uses BASH scripting and the Pulse Audio control utility and was compiled into a C binary using Francisco Javier Rosales García SHC shell compiler.
http://linux.die.net/man/1/pactl https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/ http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/~frosal/sources/shc.html
Other references:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2078970/how-to-mute-the-microphone-c http://stackoverflow.com/questions/154089/mute-windows-volume-using-c http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3046668/how-to-mute-microphone-in-windows-7-with-c-c