Audio issues with Zoom and external speakers

[Kreeta]

Hello can anyone help me with my audio issues with zoom meetings.  I tried to plug in my external speakers via headphone jack.

Played music to sing a along to and no one could hear me

I have a Dell Latitude laptop

Thank you in advance

[colegs]

When you did that, did you verify what audio input was selected for the microphone?  Speakers shouldn't impact your input unless they are somehow viewed by the computer as having an input device, and the Zoom input is changed.  You should be able to override that, though, if it shows an invalid microphone.