This worked for me: I had to manually rest the audio daemon on my computer. I have a macbook air though so it might be different for you? (1) Type in the search bar 'Terminal' and click the Terminal utility - it should be a black box icon looking thing.
What is the best headset for use with Google Voice or any other VOIP service submitted 3. So I have to call in to conference calls over Google Hangouts on my macbook air. The reason I posted this in a Mac specific sub is because I'm under the impression that the headphone/mic jack on the mac is different than a normal PC. I have a MacBook Pro using Google Chrome. When I try to use Google Hangouts, I get a window that says, 'The - Answered by a verified Mac Support Specialist. Can't get Google Talk plugin for Google Hangouts video to work on my Mac that uses the Safari browser.
(2) Type in 'sudo killall coreaudiod' into the Terminal black box thingy that pops up. (3) It'll automatically show a warning sign and tell you to enter your computers password. (To be honest, I didnt know what the warning sign meant. But I was desperate to try anything after searching close to an hour for an answer to this problem.) (4) Type in your computer password. (5) Restart the google hangout application by exiting out and opening it again.
(6) Try calling someone again and see if it works! Hope it does:/. I would suggest looking into the first. Then check the properties of your recording devices and see if it will let you reduce the sound quality, sample rate, etc. The idea here is to make the sound data being transmitted over your Internet connections smaller, thus easier for a poor connection to handle. Depending on you OS & hardware, there may be few settings which can be adjusted.
On the other hand, some high end sound devices allow a lot of customization. Sorry this answer is vague, but you didn't give us much detail to work with.
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Hangouts can be accessed via Chrome extension, or There is no native Mac client:( On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 1:52 PM Brandt Steenkamp wrote: Hi again folks, I am looking for a way to use Google Hangouts from my Mac, I know you can do so from the Web, but I personally prefer to do so from an App. I know text chatting is available from the messaging app, but Audio and Video is not. If anyone can help, I would be grateful. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my Macbook Pro Contact: Phone: Private: +27 (0)60 525 9181 For technical support with iOS: +27 (0)78 120 5013 Email: Twitter: @brandtsteenkamp Maria aka bubbyBubbyGirl, 19:24 น.