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jerrod-lankford / google-voice-desktop-app

An electron shell wrapper around the google voice website
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Microphone doesn't work on MacOS Monterey, missing permission, work around included. #106

Closed bhyde closed 2 years ago

bhyde commented 2 years ago

Sadly nobody I called could hear me. Puzzled out that this was because the application didn't have the right to use microphone. It needs permission from the user to listen in on his life.

I found two workarounds.

1) If the user runs the application from the command line.

/Applications/Voice\ Desktop.app/Contents/MacOS/Voice\ Desktop

It will then ask for permission when the time comes. Bummer is, you have to do this every time.

2) The user can hand modify the user's "Transparency, Consent, and Control" settings. Here is a little gist to do just that.

Obviously, in a more perfect world the Application would deal with this.

justdave commented 2 years ago

Having this same issue on Big Sur as well.

The command line approach appears to work because the app is then a child process of the Terminal, and the Terminal appears to know how to ask permission. (The prompt that comes up asks if it's okay for the Terminal to access your microphone).

justdave commented 2 years ago

This looks like a duplicate of #101

bhyde commented 2 years ago

Thanks, worked for me. And yeah, I cleared the permission during the upgrade.