# Microphone access from Dashboard

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/microphone-access-from-dashboard/3746>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [6 October 2018 21:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/microphone-access-from-dashboard/3746 "2018-10-06T21:04:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [7 October 2018 01:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/microphone-access-from-dashboard/3746/2 "2018-10-07T01:00:26Z")

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Hi Sandra,

You didn't say which microphone node you are using, so I went looking for what is available in the flows library... it looks like the [node-red-contrib-browser-utils](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-browser-utils) provides a dashboard widget the start/stop button built-in:

> Microphone
> 
> The browser starts recording after the button next to the node is clicked and stops it when the button is clicked again. The node outputs it as a WAV buffer.

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