Skype - Can I use earphones Mic ?

[conciliar]

Hi guys,

hoping you can help me. I want to use the mic on my Samsung mobile earphones with my laptop (is it possible?) - which is an acer aspire E1-572. (there is only one jack on the side which has a headphones - sign)

When i'm talking with my friend on skype it uses the inbuilt laptop mic - transfers some annoying background noise.

I have plugged in the earphones in the only one jack I have on the side of my laptop. I can hear sound through the earphones but is it possible to to use the mic also? (the earphones does have a mic)

Having looked at control panel under the recording options it only shows Realtek High Definiton Audio listed as the microphone - which I guess is the inbuilt one. The second option is Stereo Mix - which i've tried also.

Under speakers settings on control panel it also only shows Realtek High Definition Audio, and I can hear the sound in my earphones instead of the laptop speakers which is fine.

Thanks!

[Uzephi]

Almost all computer headphone jacks are just that. They usually don't have dual input for a single Jack like phones do. This is why all computer headsets that use inputs instead of usb have a headphone and microphone plug.

You can always use Skype on your phone with your headset.

[eriks112]

In order to get your earphones to work you could cut off that multi speaker/mic jack and solder two 3-pole jacks on to it. One for speaker and one for headphone.

Else, you could get something like this: http://www.ebay.in/itm/3-5mm-Mic-Stereo ... 1411573446