audio flatline

I am experiencing difficulty recording. I get active voice meter for 10 to 12 seconds and then the line goes flat and the volume bottoms out. If I continue to speak it will occasionally demonstrate activity for a word but then returns to a flat line with greatly diminished volume. How do I correct this?

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We’re having difficulty getting you to post in the right place. This is the forum to discuss the color of the forum fonts, not Audacity.

Please go back up and find the right forum for your computer and version of Audacity.

Thanks,

Do you like the three-tone blue forum pages?

Koz