Talk with the crown

Turn the crown clockwise to start talking and back to stop. Pick how far to turn for starting and for stopping.

Turning the crown is the quickest way to talk from your wrist. The watch must be showing KeyUp, unless you turn on screen-off crown talk.

Turn the crown to talk

Watch

With KeyUp on screen, turn the crown clockwise. One buzz: the watch is listening.
Start speaking. The button goes red, On air, and everything you said since the buzz goes out.
Turn it back to stop.
To use it, pick Crown in Settings › How you talk (it is the standard choice). Fine tuning is under Advanced there.

Settings › How you talk: Set up in one tap, then Crown, Raise, Tap the button, Hold the button and Open mic. — One How you talk picker.

Settings › How you talk with Crown picked, Advanced open: To start talking and To stop talking (How far to turn: Light); Black screen while crown talking, Screen off when a crown talk ends, Voice strictness, Double tap the dimmed screen to talk and Keep KeyUp on screen follow, and the rows for other ways are under Not used with Crown. — Crown fine tuning.

Phone

The same choices are on the phone in You › Talk › On my watch (shown once a watch is on your account). The crown rows are on the watch only: More on your watch says so.

You › Watch: How you talk on the watch with Crown, Raise, Tap the button, Hold the button and Open mic, the line under it, Crown talk, then Advanced. — Watch settings on the phone.

How far to turn the crown

If the crown starts talks by accident, make it firmer. If you have to turn a lot, make it lighter. Starting and stopping are set separately.

Watch

Swipe up, tap Settings › How you talk, pick Crown and open Advanced.
Set To start talking and To stop talking to Light, Normal or Firm.

Phone

On the watch only. The phone’s You › Talk › On my watch has More on your watch.

Good to know

You can also assign KeyUp Talk to a watch button. See Talk with a watch button.
The first time you turn on Crown, the watch shows a short tip once. To see the tips again, tap Settings › You › Help › Show talk tips again.
Crown talk always uses Tap, whatever talk style the room uses.
On a Samsung Galaxy Watch, KeyUp’s own screens say Bezel where this article says crown: Bezel in How you talk, the Settings hint Bezel, raise, open mic, Screen-off bezel talk, Black screen while bezel talking and the notice Screen-off bezel talk is off.
Nothing happens? Tap Crown not working? in Settings › You › Help. See Crown not working?
On KeyUp’s other screens, like Settings, People and Messages, the crown scrolls and never starts a talk.
Galaxy Watch has no crown, so crown talk follows the bezel: turn the bezel on a Classic model, or slide a finger around the screen edge on the others. The touch bezel must be on in the watch’s Settings › General › Touch bezel. KeyUp on Galaxy Watch is new and not fully tried yet; if something is off, send a report from the watch (Settings › You › Help › Report a problem).
A Galaxy Watch Ultra has no bezel, so the watch says This watch has no bezel. Talk with Raise, or set Double press Home to KeyUp Talk. under Bezel. See Talk with a watch button.
A crown turn never sends anything unless you speak, with the screen on or off. One buzz means the mic can hear you, and you go on air when you speak. What you said since the buzz is sent too (up to 2.5 seconds), so your first words are not cut. A sleeve or water turning the crown sends nothing.
Your first words are kept from where your own voice starts, so background sound that was already in the room is not sent first.
In a loud place the crown waits for a voice that is close to the watch and well above the room, so machines or someone next to you won’t put you on air. Hold the watch near your mouth when it is loud around you. You can tune this or turn it off under Only a close voice.
No voice for about 3.5 seconds after the buzz switches the mic off again. Once you are on air, about 5 seconds without your voice ends the talk (two buzzes).

Still stuck? Email [email protected]. Tell us your phone and watch model and what you tried.