# How can I use my sound-enabled webcam as a microphone?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 2, 2009, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-use-my-sound-enabled-webcam-as-a-microphone/508609 "2009-09-02T04:52:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-use-my-sound-enabled-webcam-as-a-microphone/508609/1 "2009-09-02T04:52:32Z")

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I recently bought a new Dell Inspiron, and it has a nifty little built-in webcam that also captures sound quite well. Is there any way to isolate this function in order to, say, record directly to Audacity?

Sorry for the computer-related question, but it didn’t seem to be one of the no-nos in the sticky.

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**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-use-my-sound-enabled-webcam-as-a-microphone/508609/2 "2009-09-02T05:06:17Z")

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Sorry, I’m a huge dumbass. Of course I downloaded Audacity just now, clicked record, and it knew exactly what I was trying to do. Feel free to close this thread, mods.