Glossary
Audio ducking
Audio ducking is the automatic lowering of one audio track's volume whenever another track becomes active.
What it means
The classic example is a radio announcer. The music drops in volume the moment the host starts speaking, then rises again when they stop. The voice "ducks" the music under it. The same idea shows up in podcasts, video editing, and navigation apps that quiet your music to read out a turn.
In a meeting recording, ducking is less common. You usually want every voice at a steady, faithful level rather than having one duck another. The related and more useful technique is mixing the microphone and loopback tracks at balanced levels so no one is drowned out.
How this relates to Autorec
Autorec does not duck one speaker under another, because that would distort what was actually said. Instead it mixes your microphone and the system loopback at balanced levels and applies a gentle limiter so a sudden loud moment cannot clip. Every voice on the call stays audible.
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