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Please forgive (and remedy?) my ignorance, but are you saying all hardware speakers can be used as microphones?


Yep! If you want to try this, you can plug any speaker with a 3.5 mm output into a mic input and speak into it. It'll probably be faint, but it usually works.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/154343/can-a-sp...


Microphone-less headphones are a great way to test this phenomenon. If you have them handy, just plug them into the mic port and talk. IIRC only one earpiece in a stereo set connects with a mono microphone jack.


Thanks. I'm embarrassed not to have known this.





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