[Bug]: Doesn't trigger microphone permission on macOS

[CallMeLaNN]

Current Behavior

I was running pyaudio to record voice but it doesn't work and .wav produced have empty bytes. I thought my installation or pyaudio issue but now I realize the terminal issue. I can record audio with default Terminal app.

Latest Wave app doesn't trigger microphone permission just like Terminal when using pyaudio.open(input=True,...).

Instead of I give a pyaudio script, you can try sox.

Expected Behavior

Prompt the mic permission and have audio stream recorded

Steps To Reproduce

1. brew install sox
2. sox -d -t wav - | play -
3. Increase your volume
4. Say something

After step 2, you should be prompted for the mic permission.
The you should hear yourself as you say with some echo for speaker.

Note: Use tccutil reset Microphone to let apps to ask for the permission again.

Wave Version

0.8.12

OS

macOS 12.6

Architecture

arm64

Anything else?

No response

Questionnaire

• I'm interested in fixing this myself but don't know where to start
• I would like to fix and I have a solution
• I don't have time to fix this right now, but maybe later

[sawka]

Interesting. Thanks for reporting this. I haven't tried recording audio (or using the microphone) in Wave yet so we haven't run across this. It should be possible, like you said, to get that permission from the OS. Once we have a test case to work on we should be able to figure it out.

[sawka]

ah, my latest attempt worked! thanks for the instructions on how to test this. this should make the v0.9.1 build.

[CallMeLaNN]

You are welcome. That's the least I can contribute to. Hope I can catchup with the 0.8 and 0.9 releases. I missed the 0.7 UI but 0.8 more productive and it wasn't auto update IIRC, so I'll watch here.

[esimkowitz]

Hey @CallMeLaNN is this still an issue for you?

[CallMeLaNN]

@esimkowitz Yup, its working. Mac ask for mic and I can hear myself.
Maybe I have to close this. Thanks 🚀