
The quiescent power drain is only 24 milliwatts when operating from a 6 volt supply, making the LM386 ideal for battery operation. The gain is internally set to 20 to keep external part count low, but the addition of an external resistor and capacitor between pins 1 and 8 will increase the gain to any value from 20 to 200. Speaker used in this circuit must have an impedance of 8 ohms.

This voice audio amplifier circuit is powered from a 9v dc power supply and circuit does not require any future adjustments. LM386 is a power amplifier designed for use in low voltage consumer applications.

This voice audio amplifier circuit is designed using LM386 operational amplifier.
