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Old 16-10-2015, 10:42
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I have a Moto G (2015) and am trying to use it hands free. I have both wired and bluetooth, but with neither of these systems does the microphone play back into the earphones.

This means that whilst I'm having a conversation, although I can hear myself, the sound is very attenuated and muffled making the use of hands free very tiring on a long call, and leading to speaking at an unnecessarily high level.

Surely there must be some way to set the phone so that it mixes the mic input into the headphone output.
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Old 16-10-2015, 11:05
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That's the whole idea isn't it, your not meant to hear your own voice through the earpiece or whatever your using for hands free.
Why would you even want to hear yourself, surely as long as you can hear the other person and the other person can hear you then the phone call has achieved its purpose?
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Old 16-10-2015, 11:18
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Originally Posted by GONZO
That's the whole idea isn't it
No, of course it isn't.

The 'whole point' of using hands free is to allow you to make phone calls without the need for using your hands.

Why would you even want to hear yourself
Because throughout a lifetime of making phone calls (and speking to people face to face) one can always hear oneself perfectly normally. To suddenly only be able to hear yourself muffled and attenuated is both distracting and tiring.

surely as long as you can hear the other person and the other person can hear you then the phone call has achieved its purpose?
I did actually explain in the OP that one of the problems (apart from the distraction of having muffled feedback of yourself) is that it tends to make you speak at an unnecessarily loud level.
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Old 16-10-2015, 12:04
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I can see where you're coming from. But in the case of Bluetooth, if you could hear yourself back I would have thought it would be on a slight delay, so that would probably be a lot more off-putting than having your own voice slightly muffled by the headset.

Maybe phone hardware just doesn't generally support mixing the caller audio and your audio into one feed. I suppose the answer is to just have one earphone in while you're using the earphones as a handsfree kit.
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Old 16-10-2015, 12:27
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I have a Moto G (2015) and am trying to use it hands free. I have both wired and bluetooth, but with neither of these systems does the microphone play back into the earphones.

This means that whilst I'm having a conversation, although I can hear myself, the sound is very attenuated and muffled making the use of hands free very tiring on a long call, and leading to speaking at an unnecessarily high level.

Surely there must be some way to set the phone so that it mixes the mic input into the headphone output.
That would probably be awful - it would take a finite time to process the mic input, and relay it back to headphones. You would naturally hear your own speech, and then get the relayed sound a split second afterward an echo.

As a partially deaf person, I tried using apps that basically do what you say ie relay spoken sound back to headphones so I could amplify speech (basically using phone as a hearing aid).

Whilst they worked, you always got the amplified sound echoing after initial sound making it very difficult to listen to.
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Old 16-10-2015, 13:03
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Sidetone is a very real thing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidetone.

I think the iPhone does do some sidetone when using a headset - at least I've heard it on my 4S. It doesn't have to have any delay if it is done properly
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