You can hear a live device’s audio — the app’s sound effects, video, alerts, whatever it plays — right alongside the picture, and speak into the device’s microphone from your own, on the Devices page, on a share link, in an embed, and in a collaboration session.
Hearing the device
On the Devices page, open the Device tab in the tools panel and look for the Audio section:
- Sound — a slider, starting at 0 (muted). Move it up to turn sound on; the level you set is your own listening volume and doesn’t change the volume on the device itself.
- Output — a picker for which speaker or headphones play the sound. Where your browser supports choosing an output device, you’ll see System plus any other outputs it lists; otherwise the picker just shows System.
- Input — a picker for the microphone you speak into the device with: None (the default), System, or one of your microphones. See Microphone.
Sound always starts muted — moving the slider is what turns it on.
On a share link, or in a collaboration session where you can control the device, the Sound button is the last button in the device controls beside the device. In an embed, or as a view-only collaboration guest, it’s a round speaker button on the device’s bottom-right corner. Either one opens the same controls in a small card. The button only appears once the session has audio turned on for you (see below); it’s not shown on a session where neither sound nor the microphone is available to you.
Sharing and embedding
Audio is off by default on share links and embed keys. When you create or edit the link or key, choose what the people you send it to (or the visitors on your embedded page) may do under Audio, in the same settings dialog as its other options:
- Sound only — hear the device.
- Microphone only — speak into the device, without hearing it.
- Sound + microphone — both.
Sound works on iPhone/iPad, Apple TV, Android and Android TV, and the microphone on iPhone/iPad and Android phones and tablets (iOS and tvOS 18 or later on Apple devices); see Platform support.
If you’re pasting an embed snippet by hand rather than copying the generated one, make sure its <iframe> has allow="autoplay" when sound is on, plus microphone when the microphone is (allow="clipboard-write; autoplay; microphone") — the snippet VibeView gives you already includes them. Without microphone there, the browser refuses the microphone inside your page.
Collaboration
Guests you invite into a session can hear the device too, whether you gave them view-only or full control access. Guests with control can also use the microphone; view-only guests can’t.
Platform support
| Platform | Sound | Microphone |
|---|---|---|
| iPhone/iPad | Available on iOS 18 and later | Available on iOS 18 and later |
| Apple TV | Available on tvOS 18 and later | No microphone |
| Roku | Available | Not supported |
| Android phone/tablet | Available | Available — the app hears you while it’s recording |
| Android TV | Available | No microphone |
Microphone
To speak into the device, choose a microphone under Input — System uses your computer’s default one. Your browser asks for permission to use it the first time; once you allow it, the app on the device hears what you say, as if you were talking into the phone. While you’re speaking, a level bar under the picker moves with your voice. Choose None to stop.
- One person at a time. A session’s microphone has one speaker: if someone else picks a microphone while you’re using it, it passes to them, your picker goes back to None, and the Input row says In use by another viewer until they stop. Pick a microphone again to take it back.
- Use headphones when you have sound on too, so the device doesn’t hear itself through your speakers. Echo cancellation is on, but headphones are the reliable way to avoid feedback.
- On Android, the app hears you only while it’s recording. Your microphone stays picked, but nothing reaches the device until the app starts listening (for example, you tap its record button); it takes a second or two to start hearing you.
- Speaking into the microphone counts as use, so a session you’re talking to doesn’t time out for being idle. A microphone that is picked but silent doesn’t count, and neither does listening to device sound.
Browser support
Hearing device sound and using the microphone both work in recent versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari.
Troubleshooting
If the Audio section (or, on a share link or embed, the sound card) says sound isn’t available right now and the Sound slider is gone, the device or session you’re on doesn’t support it at the moment. If the sentence appears above a Sound slider that’s still there, sound stopped unexpectedly — move the slider up again to retry. If that doesn’t match what you expect — for example, an iPhone session that should have sound — contact support@vibeview.io.
If the Input row says:
- Microphone blocked by your browser. — you (or a browser setting) refused microphone access for this site. Allow it from the address bar’s site settings, then pick the microphone again.
- This browser can’t send your microphone. — switch to a recent Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari.
- Microphone isn’t available on this device. — the device has no microphone support (Apple TV, Android TV, Roku, and iOS 17 and earlier).
- Microphone isn’t available right now. — the microphone stopped unexpectedly; pick it again to retry, and contact support@vibeview.io if it keeps happening.