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title: "Audio | PrimalDesk Docs"
description: "Remote sound playback and the virtual microphone."
url: "https://docs.primaldesk.com/articles/session-audio"
---

# Audio

Remote sound playback and the virtual microphone.

PrimalDesk streams sound from the remote session to your client, including in **Remote Apps** mode. You can hear remote applications while their windows are integrated into your local desktop.

## Virtual microphone

PrimalDesk also supports a **virtual microphone** on the host. It lets remote applications receive audio from your local microphone, for example during a voice call or a recording.

Enable **Share microphone** in the client’s session settings. Microphone capture starts only while a remote application is recording. Select the PrimalDesk virtual microphone in that application’s audio settings if it does not use it automatically, and allow microphone access where your operating system requests it.

You can turn microphone sharing off independently of listening to remote audio.

This guide describes the current development and testing phase.

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