PJSip with IOS, microphone volume is very low

Question

We created a VOIP soft phone that connects the caller to the conference bridge. The bridges are conference hints, and callers on regular phones can be heard very well, but the softphone input is barely audible.

We use PJSip, AVAudioSession, Objective-C, and iOS 10.2

We tried to set the input gain using AVAudioSession, but the gain cannot be set.

Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks you

Answer 1

You need a combination of the three iOS features here.

1. Audio messaging category

documentation , :

/*  Use this category for background sounds such as rain, car engine noise, etc.  
 Mixes with other music. */
public let AVAudioSessionCategoryAmbient: String

/*  Use this category for background sounds.  Other music will stop playing. */
public let AVAudioSessionCategorySoloAmbient: String

/* Use this category for music tracks.*/
public let AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback: String

/*  Use this category when recording audio. */
public let AVAudioSessionCategoryRecord: String

/*  Use this category when recording and playing back audio. */
public let AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayAndRecord: String

/*  Use this category when using a hardware codec or signal processor while
 not playing or recording audio. */
@available(iOS, introduced: 3.0, deprecated: 10.0)
public let AVAudioSessionCategoryAudioProcessing: String

/*  Use this category to customize the usage of available audio accessories and built-in audio hardware.
 For example, this category provides an application with the ability to use an available USB output 
 and headphone output simultaneously for separate, distinct streams of audio data. Use of 
 this category by an application requires a more detailed knowledge of, and interaction with, 
 the capabilities of the available audio routes.  May be used for input, output, or both.
 Note that not all output types and output combinations are eligible for multi-route.  Input is limited
 to the last-in input port. Eligible inputs consist of the following:
    AVAudioSessionPortUSBAudio, AVAudioSessionPortHeadsetMic, and AVAudioSessionPortBuiltInMic.  
 Eligible outputs consist of the following: 
    AVAudioSessionPortUSBAudio, AVAudioSessionPortLineOut, AVAudioSessionPortHeadphones, AVAudioSessionPortHDMI, 
    and AVAudioSessionPortBuiltInSpeaker.  
 Note that AVAudioSessionPortBuiltInSpeaker is only allowed to be used when there are no other eligible 
 outputs connected.  */
@available(iOS 6.0, *)
public let AVAudioSessionCategoryMultiRoute: String

, AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayAndRecord

:

AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setCategory(AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayAndRecord)

Obj-c

[[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setCategory:AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayAndRecord error:&err]

2.

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/* The default mode */
/*!
@abstract      Modes modify the audio category in order to introduce behavior that is tailored to the specific
use of audio within an application.  Available in iOS 5.0 and greater.
 */
@available(iOS 5.0, *)
public let AVAudioSessionModeDefault: String

/* Only valid with AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayAndRecord.  Appropriate for Voice over IP
(VoIP) applications.  Reduces the number of allowable audio routes to be only those
that are appropriate for VoIP applications and may engage appropriate system-supplied
signal processing.  Has the side effect of setting AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionAllowBluetooth */
@available(iOS 5.0, *)
public let AVAudioSessionModeVoiceChat: String

/* Set by Game Kit on behalf of an application that uses a GKVoiceChat object; valid
 only with the AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayAndRecord category.
 Do not set this mode directly. If you need similar behavior and are not using
 a GKVoiceChat object, use AVAudioSessionModeVoiceChat instead. */
@available(iOS 5.0, *)
public let AVAudioSessionModeGameChat: String

/* Only valid with AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayAndRecord or AVAudioSessionCategoryRecord.
 Modifies the audio routing options and may engage appropriate system-supplied signal processing. */
@available(iOS 5.0, *)
public let AVAudioSessionModeVideoRecording: String

/* Appropriate for applications that wish to minimize the effect of system-supplied signal
processing for input and/or output audio signals. */
@available(iOS 5.0, *)
public let AVAudioSessionModeMeasurement: String

/* Engages appropriate output signal processing for movie playback scenarios.  Currently
only applied during playback over built-in speaker. */
@available(iOS 6.0, *)
public let AVAudioSessionModeMoviePlayback: String

/* Only valid with kAudioSessionCategory_PlayAndRecord. Reduces the number of allowable audio
routes to be only those that are appropriate for video chat applications. May engage appropriate
system-supplied signal processing.  Has the side effect of setting
AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionAllowBluetooth and AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionDefaultToSpeaker. */
@available(iOS 7.0, *)
public let AVAudioSessionModeVideoChat: String

/* Appropriate for applications which play spoken audio and wish to be paused (via audio session interruption) rather than ducked
if another app (such as a navigation app) plays a spoken audio prompt.  Examples of apps that would use this are podcast players and
audio books.  For more information, see the related category option AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionInterruptSpokenAudioAndMixWithOthers. */
@available(iOS 9.0, *)
public let AVAudioSessionModeSpokenAudio: String

AVAudioSessionModeVideoChat

AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setMode(AVAudioSessionModeVideoChat)

Obj-C

[[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setMode:AVAudioSessionModeVideoChat error:&err]

3.

/ earpiece/receiver. , ,

AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().overrideOutputAudioPort(AVAudioSessionPortOverride.speaker)

Obj-C

[[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] overrideOutputAudioPort:AVAudioSessionPortOverrideSpeaker error:nil];