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  1. Open Automator.app
  2. Create new Quick Action
  3. Select Run AppleScript
  4. Add this:
set inputVolume to input volume of (get volume settings)
if inputVolume = 0 then
	set inputVolume to 100
	display notification "Volume set to 100" with title "✅ Microphone is on"
else
	set inputVolume to 0
	display notification "Volume set to 0" with title "❌ Microphone is off"
end if
set volume input volume inputVolume
  1. Save as mute-microphone
  2. Go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Services -> General
  3. Find the mute-microphone service and set the hotkey (e.g. control-cmd-option M)
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Now we need to have Apple make this a default thing for MacOS, with an option to have the mic icon on the menu bar as well

I meant to follow up on this gist tbh, but in the end I ended up building a whole Hammerspoon script: https://github.com/chessmango/SimpleMicMute.spoon

I wanted a bit more out of it and speed was an issue for me, so fitting into a known-good framework for this type of thing felt more fitting. I've been using it since just before my last commit successfully, with a nice menubar indicator.

This looks good, thanks for sharing, I definitely will try it out. The menubar indicator could also be really useful to me.

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