Why in are there two microphones in my Mac menu bar?

Voice In
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Hi,
I see two microphones in the menu bar in my 2020 27 inch iMac running macOS 15 Sequoia and I don’t know how to disable them change them or if they are even needed and I cannot remember or recall turning them on either in Voice In or in Google Chrome.

I have indicated the two microphones I am referring to in my Mac menu in the screenshot attachments below:

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The drop-down text window is one shows when each of the microphones is selected.

I don’t understand what either of the messages says or means or what it supposed to do and I don’t know if I even need them in labelled or not.

Thanks for your help. I couldn’t find any reference to the double microphones in your health, pages or any images relating to their existence.

I cannot find where they might be enabled or disabled from, and I have only recently migrated from Mac OS X 10.11.6 el Capitán to macOS 15.3.1 Sequoia.

Regards and thank you,
Patrick

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Hi Patrick,

They are two different indicators:

  • One is from the Mac OS which says Chrome is using the microphone.
  • The second is from Google Chrome telling Voice In is using the microphone.

It is working as expected and you can ignore it.