Sunday, November 1, 2020

The 'chipmunk' issue with Logitech webcams

  I have a C310 Logitech webcam and using some applications, other meeting participants complain that my audio sounds like that of a 'chipmunk'. After some googling the issue was identified to be the wrong sampling frequency identified by the camera.

$pacmd list-sources for this;

name :alsa_input.usb-046d_081b_2B075230-02.mono-fallback

   sample spec: s16le 1ch 48000Hz

this must be set to 16000Hz in /etc/pulse/default.pa

load-module module-remap-source master=alsa_input.usb-046d_081b_2B075230-02.mono-fallback rate=16000

which will show a remapped device, like(from pavucontrol)

 that should fix the issue.