I would like to know how good the orange pi lite's microphone is? Can it compare to a built-in webcam microphone (Logitech C270)? Also, how hard is it to access it? Are drivers pre-installed in the Ubuntu Server image?
Drivers are present in all Armbian builds, most likely also enabled by default. You need to make use of alsamixer on server image while there is pulseaudio at desktop ...