So with my nice new DWM installation I waltz into a Jitsi meeting only to find that my microphone wasn't working even though it appeared to. Something was missing in pulseaudio after I removed XFCE4, or wasn't taken into account in DWM. Then I noticed that Librewolf was looking for Pipewire. What?
Eventually I got it working, but the microphone was distorted and full of parasites. Adding a module remap to turn the two laptop microphones into mono was a tad better but I decided go for the bleeding edge and install Pipewire instead of Pulseaudio.
sudo pacman -Rdd pulseaudio
sudo pacman -S pipewire-{jack,alsa,pulse}
systemctl --user enable --now pipewire pipewire-pulse pipewire-media-session
git clone https://github.com/werman/noise-suppression-for-voice.git
Follow the instructions at Noise suppression for Voice
In order to change the default source:
pactl list sources short pactl set-default-source rnnoise_source systemctl --user restart pipewire.service
And that's the best I'll probably ever get out of the internal X220 microphones.
Why not just use Alsa? Because I use a bluetooth headset and noise suppression.
Why not just use an external microphone? I've ordered one :-)
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