Use your phone as a mic for a Linux PC
1. Create a virtual audio device
Other apps can't directly use AudioRelay as a source. We'll have to create a virtual audio device.
AudioRelay will send sound to this virtual audio device and other apps will listen to it as if it was a real microphone.
Result in Volume control
What the result should look like in Volume control
/ pavucontrol
(Installed via sudo apt install pavucontrol
2. Start AudioRelay on your phone
Go to the server tab
Click on the microphone source
3. Start AudioRelay on your PC
Go to the player tab
Select Virtual-Mic-Sink as the audio device
Click on your phone in the server list

4. Start your communications app (Discord, Skype...)
Find the microphone settings
Select Virtual-Mic as an input device

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