Virtual mic setup guides

Connect SylphSpeak text to speech (TTS) to another app

Use these virtual mic setup guides when you want an app, game, meeting tool, or voice chat platform to hear SylphSpeak text to speech (TTS).

New to virtual microphones?

Start with How to use text-to-speech as a microphone if you want a plain-language overview of how typed speech becomes microphone input. Then come back here for app-specific steps.

In most apps, the setup is the same:

1. Open the app’s audio, voice, or microphone settings.
2. Choose the SylphSpeak virtual mic as the input device.
3. Send a short SylphSpeak test message.
4. Confirm the app can hear the TTS audio.

Voice chat and meetings

Use these guides for chat and meeting apps where other people need to hear your SylphSpeak TTS audio.

• Connect SylphSpeak to Discord
• Connect SylphSpeak to Zoom

Games

Use these guides for games with in-game voice chat.

• Connect SylphSpeak to VALORANT
• Connect SylphSpeak to Counter-Strike 2
• Connect SylphSpeak to Overwatch

Helpful virtual mic references

Use these pages if you still need to pick and install a virtual mic, are not sure which microphone to choose, need to troubleshoot audio quality, or skipped the virtual mic test during onboarding.

• Pick and install a virtual mic for SylphSpeak
• Find your SylphSpeak virtual mic name
• Set up virtual mic format
• Fix onboarding virtual mic test failures

Which microphone should I choose?

Choose the virtual mic name shown in SylphSpeak.

In SylphSpeak, go to Config mode > Devices, then check Your app listens on.

That is the microphone name the other app should use as its input device.

Using routes?

If you use routes, make sure the app is listening to the virtual mic for the route you are actually using.

If the app does not hear SylphSpeak TTS

1. Confirm the app’s input or microphone device matches Your app listens on in SylphSpeak.
2. Confirm SylphSpeak is open.
3. Confirm you are sending audio through the correct route.
4. Use the app’s built-in mic test, voice test, or recording preview if it has one.
5. Ask a friend whether they can hear your SylphSpeak TTS clearly, or ask them to record what they hear from you.

If TTS audio sounds scratchy or distorted

If the app hears SylphSpeak but the TTS audio crackles, sounds scratchy, cuts out, or sounds distorted, set your virtual mic format to 48,000 Hz.

See Set up virtual mic format.