Listen to conversations and sounds from a distance with the Listen from a Distance app.
Listen from a Distance turns your phone into a remote microphone and sound amplifier, allowing you to hear conversations, voices, television audio, and surrounding sounds through Bluetooth headphones or earbuds.
Place your phone near the sound you want to hear, connect your Bluetooth listening device, and tap Listen. The phone captures audio through its built-in microphone and streams amplified sound directly to your ears in real time.
LISTEN FROM ANOTHER LOCATION
Leave your phone near a person, television, speaker, or other sound source and continue listening while you move elsewhere nearby.
Listen from a Distance is useful when you cannot remain close to the sound source or when moving your phone closer provides clearer audio than listening from where you are seated.
HEAR CONVERSATIONS MORE CLEARLY
Place your phone closer to the person speaking to make quiet or distant voices easier to hear through your headphones.
Use Listen from a Distance during:
• Family conversations
• Meetings and discussions
• Lessons and lectures
• Presentations and appointments
• Small gatherings
• Other situations where speech is difficult to hear
The Listen from a Distance app amplifies the audio captured near your phone, helping you focus on the speaker without requiring them to speak louder.
CONTINUE LISTENING TO TV
Place your phone near the television and listen through your Bluetooth headphones or earbuds while sitting farther away or moving around your home.
Hear dialogue, news, interviews, movies, documentaries, sports commentary, and other television audio without raising the TV volume for everyone else.
AMPLIFY QUIET SOUNDS
Increase the volume of voices and surrounding sounds picked up by your phone’s microphone.
The Listen from a Distance app can help you hear:
• Quiet conversations
• Television dialogue
• Speakers and announcements
• Sounds from another room
• Nearby environmental sounds
• Audio that is difficult to hear from your current position
Adjust the amplification until the sound reaches a comfortable listening level.
REDUCE DISTRACTING NOISE
Background noise can make speech and important sounds harder to understand.
Use the available sound controls to reduce unwanted noise and make the audio you care about easier to focus on. Results may vary depending on the environment, microphone placement, and distance from the sound source.
RECORD IMPORTANT AUDIO
Save captured audio directly on your device when you need to listen again later.
Recordings can be useful for reviewing lessons, presentations, personal notes, discussions, or other audio you have permission to record. Your recordings remain available inside the app for convenient playback.
HOW TO LISTEN FROM A DISTANCE
1. Connect Bluetooth headphones or earbuds.
2. Open Listen from a Distance app.
3. Tap Listen.
4. Place your phone near the sound source.
5. Move to another nearby location.
6. Adjust the boost and noise reduction to a comfortable level.
YOUR PHONE AS A REMOTE MICROPHONE
Listen from a Distance combines a remote microphone, audio amplifier, noise-reduction tool, and recorder in one simple app.
Instead of struggling to hear from across a room, move your phone closer to the audio and listen through your connected headphones. The closer your phone is to the sound source, the clearer the captured audio may be.
IDEAL FOR EVERYDAY LISTENING
Use the Listen from a Distance app at home, in classrooms, offices, meeting spaces, and other suitable environments.
The Listen from a Distance app can help when you want to:
• Hear a person speaking from farther away
• Continue listening while moving around
• Hear TV without increasing its volume
• Make quiet audio easier to hear
• Focus on speech in a noisy environment
• Save audio for later playback
