Either I don’t understand how to use Live Listen effectively or it isn’t as beneficial as I anticipated (and as advertised). My question: When you turn on Live Listen, can you turn down or even turn off the sounds picked up by the HA microphones? Or, can you somehow amplify the sounds picked up by the iPhone microphone relative to sounds picked up by the HA microphones?
Explanation: I’m trialing Oticon Opn MiniRITEs. In the well-understood restaurant scenario, I activated Live Listen and laid my iPhone on the table near folks I was having a hard time understanding. But I continued to hear them (plus lots of background noise) almost entirely through my HAs and negligibly through my iPhone. They had to pick up my iPhone and speak directly into it to change this situation. Either I’m using it incorrectly, or Live Listen is useful only for eavesdropping.
Live listen is not omnidirectional so you can’t just leave it at the table and expect the iPhone mic to pick up everyone around the table. People would have to pick up the iPhone and put the bottom of it right up to a few inches near their mouth for the iPhone mic to pick up their voice better.
You can increase the volume of the iPhone mic in Live Listen by increasing the iPhone volume.
You can mute the OPN mics by holding down one of its buttons for 3 seconds. Unmute is a quick click on any of the buttons.
If you don’t want to mute, but just reduce the OPN mics volume, then triple click the home page and slide the OPN mics volume slider to the left to reduce the OPN mics sensitivity.
Also note that there’s a delay of sound heard through Live Listen compared to sound heard through the OPN mics. Muting the OPN mics eliminates this delay that sounds like an echo because you hear the OPN mics first then you hear the iPhone mic next.
Volusiano, thank you once again. I tested all of these adjustments, and they function just as you described. My main misunderstanding involved the OPN mute function, which my Agiles also had. I had assumed that mute activation turns everything (including HA speakers) off. I use mute most often when I mow the lawn with my noisy old power mower.
Even realizing that Live Listen isn’t omnidirectional, I’m eager to try it again in a restaurant scenario, preferably with only one person I’m trying to hear and understand.