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Using the microphone in DOSBox

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First post, by Peter Swinkels

Posted on 2021-10-29, 18:00

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First of all, I did a quick search of the forum before posting . My apologies if I missed the relevant topic.

My questions:
1. Does DOSBox support a microphone? As far I can tell it doesn't.
2. If DOSBox doesn't support a microphone, does anyone know of an alternative DOSBox build that does? (DOSBox X doesn't appear to support a microhone either.)

Thank you.

My GitHub:
https://github.com/peterswinkels

Reply 1 of 2, by Peter Swinkels

Posted on 2021-10-30, 12:25

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To answer my own questions:
I have done some testing with Windows 3.11 and found that DOSBox and DOSBox-x both don't appear to support a microphone.

My GitHub:
https://github.com/peterswinkels

Reply 2 of 2, by meldro

Posted on 2026-01-05, 02:51

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DOSBox-X now supports microphone input!

I've implemented real microphone capture using Windows WASAPI. Tested with Creative Parrot (Talking Parrot) and it works well.

To enable it, add to your dosbox-x.conf [sblaster] section:

1recording source=microphone

Pre-built Windows binary for testing:
Download here

PR: #6041

Note: Only tested with Creative Parrot so far. Feedback welcome!

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