Raise to talk on your phone

Pick Raise beside Hold, Tap and Open mic on your Android phone or iPhone, raise the phone to your mouth, hold it a moment, and talk. Lower it to stop.

Raise is its own way to talk on the room screen of your Android phone and in the iPhone app (in private testing), beside Hold, Tap and Open mic. Raise the phone to your mouth with the screen toward you, hold it still, wait for the light tick and speak. Lower it to chest height to stop. It uses Tap to talk.

Ways to talk. Pick Hold, Tap, Raise or Open mic, hold to talk, and tap to talk on the watch. Captions only, no sound needed.

On the phone

Phone

Raise is its own way to talk on the room screen, beside Hold, Tap and Open mic. Pick Raise under the talk button. It is not a switch in You › Talk.
The first time you pick it, KeyUp offers Set up raise to talk: hold the phone like you are talking, three times, so it fits you. Or tap Use the standard pose: upright, screen toward you. It asks only once, and refusing the microphone does not use that up: if you refuse it, KeyUp offers Set up raise to talk again the next time you open KeyUp, for example after you allow the microphone in Settings.
Raise the phone to your mouth, screen toward you, and hold it still. A light tick means it is ready: speak. One buzz means you are live. Lower it to chest height to stop. Hold it like a walkie talkie: the top of the phone does not need to touch your face. The phone must be raised into the pose: a phone already resting upright, in a mount or a pocket, never starts a talk.
While Raise is picked, the Set up chip under the choices opens the same set-up. The rows are also in You › Talk › Advanced › Raise to talk: Set up raise to talk, Calibrate my voice, Wait for my voice, Voice strictness (Relaxed, Normal, Strict), Raise pose, Hold time and Stop when lowered. Talk style there also offers Hold, Tap or Raise. Raise pose (Relaxed, Normal, Strict) sets how close to your set-up pose the phone must be.
It also works with the screen off while KeyUp is in a room on most phones: KeyUp wakes when the phone is picked up. Only talks you could hear wake Raise from its rest. KeyUp uses the motion sensors only while it is in a room with Raise picked.

iPhone

In the iPhone app (in private testing; the web app in Safari has no Raise), Raise is its own way to talk on the room screen, beside Hold, Tap and Open mic. Pick Raise under the talk button. It is not a switch in Talk settings.
The first time you pick it, KeyUp offers Set up raise to talk: hold the iPhone like you are talking, three times, so it fits you. Or tap Use the standard pose: upright, screen toward you. It asks only once.
Raise the iPhone to your mouth, screen toward you, and hold it still. A light tick means it is ready: speak. One buzz means you are live. Lower it to chest height to stop. Hold it like a walkie talkie: the top of the iPhone does not need to touch your face. The iPhone must be raised into the pose: one already resting upright, in a mount or a pocket, never starts a talk.
While Raise is picked, the Set up chip under the choices opens the same set-up. The rows are also in You › Talk settings › Advanced › Raise to talk: Set up raise to talk, Calibrate my voice, Wait for my voice, Voice strictness (Relaxed, Normal, Strict), Raise pose, Hold time and Stop when lowered. Raise pose (Relaxed, Normal, Strict) sets how close to your set-up pose the iPhone must be. On the iPhone you pick Raise on the room screen only.
When you pick Raise, KeyUp asks for the microphone. If it was refused, a line under the Raise choice says KeyUp needs the microphone for Raise. Open Settings. Tap it to open Settings, turn the microphone on for KeyUp and come back.
Keep KeyUp open in a room to use it. This iPhone build leaves the room when you lock the phone or put KeyUp in the background, so raise to talk stops then.
The iPhone screen dims only while you hold it in the Raise pose, so a hand near the top of the screen no longer blanks it. Raise rests after an hour without a touch or a talk; touch the screen or hear a talk and it is ready again (only talks you could hear wake Raise from its rest).

If Raise stops arming on a Samsung

Phone

Samsung phones can stop a background app from reading the motion sensors. Open Settings › Battery › Background usage limits › Never sleeping apps and add KeyUp.
After a talk, lower the phone to your chest and raise it again. That is all a new talk needs.

Good to know

Your first words are kept from where your own voice starts, so background sound that was already in the room is not sent first.
The pose, the stillness check and the voice gate reduce accidental raises from a table, a pocket or walking. Nothing is sent until the voice gate hears speech (with Wait for my voice on). The talk follows the room’s usual rules, such as the longest talk and one talker at a time.
On the phone, Raise is greyed while your mic is set to your watch (it says Not available while your mic is set to your watch.) and in a room that does not allow Tap (it says Not in this room). A greyed Raise cannot be picked. It also stays off during a call and while Quiet holds your talks. Raise uses Tap on the way out, so Hold and Open mic are unchanged.
If you raise the phone three times in a row and say nothing, it rests for a minute (Raise to talk is resting for a minute.), then works again. A raise with no word in about four seconds drops quietly and sends nothing.
Calibrate my voice reads about three seconds of you speaking into the phone, on the phone only, and nothing is sent. Set up raise to talk and your voice level are saved on this phone only. Reset clears them and Raise uses the standard pose and a standard level again.

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