Depends on the maker, but most have a bad habit of using polarized
tants in the audio path. The rest used 0.1uF or less non-polar, but
then people complained of tinny sounding audio as no one bothered to
do a R/C filter analysis.

But you have a chicken and egg situation, is it the controllers fault
or the radios? Not all radios have bias and not all controllers charge
caps backwards. You can solve the problem by removing the mic bias
resistor from the radio, installing a non-polar cap anywhere in the
audio path or replacing the polar cap with a non-polar.

I used to use 10uF tants for audio but now everything I design uses
1uF 50V Ceramic because of this exact problem.

Take a look at the schematic I posted earlier, it will suit your needs
but I do not program that well, hence the open source of the hardware.
If there is any intrest I will finish the PCB, which will measure 1.9"
X 2.5" and about 0.5" tall and doesn't use any surface mount
components.

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