1. Chris has purchased a new microphone for his computer to use on Skype calls. He plugs it into the microphone jack, but it doesn't pick up his voice when he speaks into it. What might he need to add to the computer to make it work?

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1. Chris has purchased a new microphone for his computer to use on Skype calls. He plugs it into the microphone jack, but it doesn't pick up his voice when he speaks into it.  What might he need to add to the computer to make it work?
firmware
a device driver
open-source software
a software license

GPT-4o mini · Answer

Chris might need to add **a device driver** to the computer to make the microphone work. Device drivers are software components that allow the operating system and other software to interact with hardware devices, such as microphones. If the microphone requires a specific driver to function properly, it may not pick up his voice until that driver is installed.