USB microphone being recognized by Xbox Game bar but friends can’t hear me in party

If I go in the Xbox game bar the microphone settings detect my mic and the bar goes up but when I'm in a game or party nobody can hear me

I'm sorry, but your post confuses me a bit.

In the heading, you say your friend hears you, but you can't hear yourself? Or do you mean you can't hear her?

So I understand it correctly, that your friend is on PC?

When your friend is on PC, and you can't hear your friend, ask them to open the Settings in Windows 10.

In the Windows 10 settings, have them search for "Sound" in the top search bar.

Under "Input" make sure they have selected the correct Microphone device, and that they didn't accidentally mute the microphone (if the Microphone has a muting switch).

Have them talk into the microphone and check if the microphone display in the settings app is moving.

Also, what type of microphone are they using? Is that an USB headset, or is that a headset with analogue 3.5mm jacks?

no, i don't use the party chat, i'm in the game that has voice chat, but the microphone isn't bein picked up, so i can hear my crewmates, but they can't hear me and when i go to the xbox app>settings> audio, there is a gray bar right under where it says Voice volume and under that gray bar, you can set the volume, that gray bar looks like it should light up or show you if your microphone is being picked up but it always stays gray. When i go to the xbox game bar and launch a party, it looks like it picks it up there fine, but in the settings of the xbox app it does nothing, same for the game(sea of thieves) whenever i try to speak in the game nothing comes out on my side and the green message icon that shows if your voice is getting picked up doesn't appear at all meaning it's not picking up the microphone for some weird reason.

Hello Ray H,

I'm Nilay and I'll be glad to answer your query today.

Go to Settings (press Windows +
I key together) > Privacy.
On the left hand pane scroll down and look for
Microphone.
Toggle Allow apps to access Microphone
to ON.
Under Choose which Microsoft Store app can access your Microphone toggle Xbox game bar to
ON.
Restart the game bar.

Please refer to https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...rted-and/2e6f3fda-a5cd-46af-b079-76e1fa31a472 this link for further troubleshooting steps.

Good Luck
Regards

That's not really my issue. My friends can hear me while I have Game Bar up on screen. As soon as I exit and play my game, my friends can't hear me. I just figured out that if I pin the party chat widget on game bar so it stays there when I exit game bar, my friends will still be able to hear me. For now that's what I'll stick with, but I'd like to be able to remove the party chat widget from my screen.