diff --git a/locales/en/app.json b/locales/en/app.json
index f3d568bb8..a852e6505 100644
--- a/locales/en/app.json
+++ b/locales/en/app.json
@@ -163,6 +163,12 @@
   "login_auth_links_prompt": "Not registered yet?",
   "login_subheading": "To continue to Element",
   "login_title": "Login",
+  "microphone_level": {
+    "label": "Microphone level",
+    "no_device": "No microphone found. Connect one, then try again.",
+    "permission_denied": "Element Call cannot use your microphone. Allow access in your browser settings.",
+    "value": "{{level}} of {{max}}"
+  },
   "microphone_off": "Microphone off",
   "microphone_on": "Microphone on",
   "mute_microphone_button_label": "Mute microphone",
@@ -215,11 +221,14 @@
       "activating": "Activating…",
       "camera": "Camera",
       "camera_numbered": "Camera {{n}}",
+      "camera_source": "Camera Source",
       "change_device_button": "Change audio device",
       "default": "Default",
       "default_named": "Default <2>({{name}})</2>",
+      "default_named_plain": "Default ({{name}})",
       "handset": "Handset",
       "loudspeaker": "Loudspeaker",
+      "mic_source": "Mic Source",
       "microphone": "Microphone",
       "microphone_numbered": "Microphone {{n}}",
       "speaker": "Speaker",
diff --git a/src/components/MicrophoneLevelMeter.module.css b/src/components/MicrophoneLevelMeter.module.css
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..25444da4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/MicrophoneLevelMeter.module.css
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+.meter {
+  /* The icon column, the same width as a device row's, so the bars start where
+     the device names start. */
+  --meter-icon-size: 24px;
+
+  /* Compound's radio control, which the icon has to share a centre line with. */
+  --device-control-size: 20px;
+
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: var(--cpd-space-3x);
+  padding-block: var(--cpd-space-2x);
+  /* The icon shares a centre with the radio controls in the device rows above,
+     which sit one 4x padding in from the menu's edge. Two things pull this row
+     out of line with them, and both come off the padding: the row is inset by a
+     border width so that the menu's frame stays visible behind it (see
+     `.stickyMeter`), and the icon is wider than a radio control, so it starts
+     half that difference further left for the two to share a centre. Both are
+     measured in the MeterAlignsWithTheDeviceRows story rather than trusted:
+     jsdom lays nothing out, so only a real browser can hold this. */
+  padding-inline-start: calc(
+    var(--cpd-space-4x) - var(--cpd-border-width-1) -
+      (var(--meter-icon-size) - var(--device-control-size)) / 2
+  );
+  padding-inline-end: calc(var(--cpd-space-4x) * 2 + var(--cpd-space-2x));
+}
+
+.icon {
+  color: var(--cpd-color-icon-secondary);
+  flex-shrink: 0;
+  inline-size: var(--meter-icon-size);
+  block-size: var(--meter-icon-size);
+}
+
+.segments {
+  /* A bar and the space beside it are always the same size; what changes with
+     the width available is how many bars there are. Spreading a fixed number of
+     bars instead would make the meter a different shape in every place it is
+     used, and close them up into one solid block wherever the space ran short —
+     and a meter whose bars touch stops reading as a count, which is what
+     carries the level for anyone who cannot rely on the colour.
+
+     Both sizes are set here and nowhere else: the component reads them back off
+     the rendered bars to work out how many fit. */
+  flex: 1;
+  /* The width decides the count, never the other way round. Containment is
+     what enforces that: without it the bars are both a floor under the width
+     and the widest thing in the menu, so the meter would set the menu's width
+     and the device names — which are what a person is reading — would have to
+     fit around it. */
+  contain: inline-size;
+  min-inline-size: 0;
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  /* Half again as wide as a bar, as the design has it: bars set as close as
+     their own width read as a solid block long before they touch. */
+  gap: var(--cpd-space-1-5x);
+}
+
+.segment {
+  flex: none;
+  inline-size: var(--cpd-space-1x);
+  block-size: var(--cpd-space-4x);
+  border-radius: var(--cpd-space-1x);
+  background: var(--cpd-color-bg-subtle-primary);
+}
+
+/* Filled segments carry the level by count as well as by colour, so the meter
+   stays readable without relying on hue. */
+.segmentLit {
+  background: var(--cpd-color-bg-accent-rest);
+}
+
+.message {
+  color: var(--cpd-color-text-secondary);
+  /* A paragraph brings a margin below it, which in a centred row does not push
+     the text down but lifts it: the margin box is what gets centred, so the
+     words end up above the middle and the icon beside them looks low. */
+  margin-block: 0;
+}
diff --git a/src/components/MicrophoneLevelMeter.test.tsx b/src/components/MicrophoneLevelMeter.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cd7a2ceb6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/MicrophoneLevelMeter.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+import { describe, expect, test } from "vitest";
+import { render, screen } from "@testing-library/react";
+
+import { MicrophoneLevelMeter } from "./MicrophoneLevelMeter";
+import { LEVEL_SCALE } from "../state/MicrophoneLevel";
+
+describe("MicrophoneLevelMeter", () => {
+  test("announces the level rather than relying on hue", () => {
+    render(<MicrophoneLevelMeter state={{ type: "level", level: 6 }} />);
+
+    const meter = screen.getByRole("meter", { name: "Microphone level" });
+    expect(meter).toHaveAttribute("aria-valuenow", "6");
+    expect(meter).toHaveAttribute("aria-valuemax", String(LEVEL_SCALE));
+    expect(meter).toHaveAttribute("aria-valuetext", `6 of ${LEVEL_SCALE}`);
+  });
+
+  test("shows distinct messages for denied permission and no input device", () => {
+    const denied = render(
+      <MicrophoneLevelMeter state={{ type: "permission-denied" }} />,
+    );
+    // A next action, not a flat meter that reads as silence.
+    expect(
+      denied.getByText(/Allow access in your browser settings/),
+    ).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(denied.queryByRole("meter")).toBeNull();
+
+    const missing = render(
+      <MicrophoneLevelMeter state={{ type: "no-device" }} />,
+    );
+    expect(missing.getByText(/No microphone found/)).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(missing.queryByRole("meter")).toBeNull();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/components/MicrophoneLevelMeter.tsx b/src/components/MicrophoneLevelMeter.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..38516b20a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/MicrophoneLevelMeter.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+import { useCallback, useState, type FC, type Ref } from "react";
+import { Text } from "@vector-im/compound-web";
+import { MicOnIcon } from "@vector-im/compound-design-tokens/assets/web/icons";
+import classNames from "classnames";
+import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
+
+import { distinctUntilChanged, map } from "rxjs";
+
+import styles from "./MicrophoneLevelMeter.module.css";
+import { LEVEL_SCALE, type MicrophoneState } from "../state/MicrophoneLevel";
+import { observeElementSize$ } from "../utils/elementSize";
+import { useMicrophoneLevel } from "./useMicrophoneLevel";
+
+export interface LiveMicrophoneLevelMeterProps {
+  /** The microphone to listen to. */
+  deviceId: string | undefined;
+  /** Whether to hold a capture at all. */
+  active: boolean;
+  className?: string;
+  ref?: Ref<HTMLDivElement>;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The level meter, wired to a live capture of a microphone.
+ *
+ * A component of its own so that a level which does change redraws the meter
+ * and not whatever is rendered beside it. A moving level arrives many times a
+ * second; held in the menu, it would reconcile every device row on the way to
+ * the bars.
+ */
+export const LiveMicrophoneLevelMeter: FC<LiveMicrophoneLevelMeterProps> = ({
+  deviceId,
+  active,
+  className,
+  ref,
+}) => {
+  const state = useMicrophoneLevel(deviceId, active);
+  return <MicrophoneLevelMeter state={state} className={className} ref={ref} />;
+};
+
+export interface MicrophoneLevelMeterProps {
+  state: MicrophoneState;
+  className?: string;
+  /**
+   * The meter's own element. Its height is what a scroll container has to keep
+   * clear to stop the meter covering the row it has just scrolled to.
+   */
+  ref?: Ref<HTMLDivElement>;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The live input level of the selected microphone, shown beneath it, or the
+ * reason there is no level to show.
+ */
+export const MicrophoneLevelMeter: FC<MicrophoneLevelMeterProps> = ({
+  state,
+  className,
+  ref,
+}) => {
+  const { t } = useTranslation();
+  // How many bars there is room for. The bars never change size, so this is
+  // what absorbs a change of width. Starts at the full count so that the first
+  // paint is a meter rather than a single bar, and so that a renderer with no
+  // layout at all — jsdom — still draws the whole thing.
+  const [barCount, setBarCount] = useState(LEVEL_SCALE);
+  const track = useCallback(
+    (element: HTMLDivElement | null): (() => void) | undefined => {
+      if (element === null) return;
+      const subscription = observeElementSize$(element)
+        .pipe(
+          map(({ width }) => barsThatFit(element, width)),
+          distinctUntilChanged(),
+        )
+        .subscribe(setBarCount);
+      return (): void => subscription.unsubscribe();
+    },
+    [],
+  );
+
+  return (
+    <div ref={ref} className={classNames(styles.meter, className)}>
+      <MicOnIcon className={styles.icon} aria-hidden />
+      {state.type !== "level" ? (
+        <Text size="sm" className={styles.message}>
+          {state.type === "permission-denied"
+            ? t("microphone_level.permission_denied")
+            : t("microphone_level.no_device")}
+        </Text>
+      ) : (
+        <div
+          ref={track}
+          className={styles.segments}
+          role="meter"
+          aria-label={t("microphone_level.label")}
+          aria-valuemin={0}
+          aria-valuemax={LEVEL_SCALE}
+          aria-valuenow={state.level}
+          aria-valuetext={t("microphone_level.value", {
+            level: state.level,
+            max: LEVEL_SCALE,
+          })}
+        >
+          {Array.from({ length: barCount }, (_, i) => (
+            <span
+              key={i}
+              aria-hidden
+              className={classNames(styles.segment, {
+                // The level is a share of the scale, not a count of bars: how
+                // many stand for it depends on how many there are.
+                [styles.segmentLit]:
+                  i < Math.round((state.level / LEVEL_SCALE) * barCount),
+              })}
+            />
+          ))}
+        </div>
+      )}
+    </div>
+  );
+};
+
+/**
+ * How many bars fit across `width`, measured off a rendered one rather than
+ * told: a bar's size is a design question, settled in the stylesheet, and
+ * reading it back is what keeps it from being settled twice.
+ */
+function barsThatFit(track: HTMLElement, width: number): number {
+  const gap = Number.parseFloat(getComputedStyle(track).columnGap);
+  const bar = track.firstElementChild?.getBoundingClientRect().width ?? 0;
+  // A renderer that lays nothing out tells us nothing; keep the full count.
+  if (!(bar > 0) || !(gap >= 0)) return LEVEL_SCALE;
+  return Math.max(1, Math.floor((width + gap) / (bar + gap)));
+}
diff --git a/src/components/useMicrophoneLevel.test.tsx b/src/components/useMicrophoneLevel.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1258bfeea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/useMicrophoneLevel.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+import { afterEach, describe, expect, test } from "vitest";
+import { renderHook } from "@testing-library/react";
+
+import { useMicrophoneLevel } from "./useMicrophoneLevel";
+import { restoreAudioCapture, stubAudioCapture } from "../utils/test";
+
+// The capture itself, and releasing it, belong to observeMicrophoneState$ and
+// are covered in src/state/MicrophoneLevel.test.ts. What is left here is the
+// bridging: when the hook watches, and what it reports before it has an answer.
+describe("useMicrophoneLevel", () => {
+  afterEach(restoreAudioCapture);
+
+  test("holds no capture while the meter is not shown", () => {
+    const capture = stubAudioCapture();
+
+    renderHook(() => useMicrophoneLevel("mic1", false));
+
+    expect(capture.getUserMedia).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  test("starts from nothing rather than the previous device's level", () => {
+    const capture = stubAudioCapture();
+
+    const { result, rerender } = renderHook(
+      ({ id }: { id: string }) => useMicrophoneLevel(id, true),
+      { initialProps: { id: "mic1" } },
+    );
+    capture.grant();
+
+    rerender({ id: "mic2" });
+
+    // No level carried over: the meter reads the new device or nothing at all.
+    expect(result.current).toEqual({ type: "level", level: 0 });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/components/useMicrophoneLevel.ts b/src/components/useMicrophoneLevel.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6e295d3e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/useMicrophoneLevel.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
+
+import {
+  type MicrophoneState,
+  observeMicrophoneState$,
+} from "../state/MicrophoneLevel";
+
+const IDLE: MicrophoneState = { type: "level", level: 0 };
+
+/**
+ * Reads the live input level of a microphone, while `active`.
+ *
+ * A bridge and nothing else: the capture, its lifetime and the maths belong to
+ * {@link observeMicrophoneState$}. Scoped to `active` so the device is held
+ * only while whatever shows the meter is on screen, rather than for the length
+ * of a call.
+ */
+export function useMicrophoneLevel(
+  deviceId: string | undefined,
+  active: boolean,
+): MicrophoneState {
+  const [state, setState] = useState<MicrophoneState>(IDLE);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!active) return;
+    // Idle first, so a new device starts from nothing rather than from the
+    // level the previous one was reading.
+    setState(IDLE);
+    const subscription = observeMicrophoneState$(deviceId).subscribe(setState);
+    return (): void => subscription.unsubscribe();
+  }, [deviceId, active]);
+
+  return state;
+}