The program's system tray icon also changes color between green and red to indicate the microphone's status. The shortcut is pretty useful as it works globally, even when MicKey's interface isn't in focus. The program doesn't seem to take the Windows key into account for hotkeys. Pick any key, and keep in mind that you are not limited to a singly key, i.e, feel free to set a combination like Control + Alt + M, or any option of your choice.
Anyway, click on the set hotkey button, and the interface should read Press Key. Yeah, you've probably never seen a keyboard with that key, neither have I for that matter. Here's where it gets a bit odd, MicKey has a default keyboard shortcut assigned to it. I’m tempted to try MicSwitch for the onscreen display, but it doesn’t look like it does volume up and volume down, so I think I’m going to stick with my current approach for a while longer, especially since it seems to be pretty stable and glitch-free.As I mentioned earlier, a hotkey can simplify this task. They all work fine, but unlike speaker volume/status, I don’t get an onscreen or Notification-Area status indicator for the microphone, because neither Microsoft nor my laptop manufacturer supplied one. And then I used AutoHotkey to make keyboard shortcuts for running the new commands.Īnyway, now my “dedicated” microphone-volume keys are the same as my “dedicated” speaker-volume keys, but with an Alt modifier key. So, I used Nirsoft Utilities’ SoundVolumeView to extract the SoundVolumeView command-line argument for toggling my microphone array between muted and unmuted (super-easy, as in two clicks), and then I edited *that* argument a little to make some “mic volume up 2%” and “mic volume down 2%” command-line arguments (also very easy). (Super-convenient, right? You can get there faster by running %windir%\System32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL mmsys.cpl,1 but that’s *still* not very convenient.) I couldn’t find any microphone volume controls on my laptop other than in classic Control Panel > Sound > Recording tab > Properties > Levels. It’s no substitute for a hardware cut-off switch, but not a lot of laptops come with those.
I try to keep my mic muted by default and unmute it when needed. “Do you mute / unmute your microphone regularly?”
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