Sound Amplifier

3,7
78,9K reviews
100M+
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Content rating
USK: All ages
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About this app

Sound Amplifier makes everyday conversations and surrounding sounds more accessible among people who are hard of hearing, using just your Android phone and a pair of headphones. Use Sound Amplifier to filter, augment and amplify sounds around you and on your device.

Features
• Reduce unwanted noise to recognise speech better.
• Focus on a speaker’s voice in noisy environments with conversation mode. (Available for Pixel 3 and above.)
• Listen to conversations, TV or lectures. For audio sources that are farther away, Bluetooth headphones are recommended. (Bluetooth headphones might have delayed sound transmission.)
• Personalise your listening experience for surrounding conversation or media playing on your device. You can reduce noise or boost low frequency, high frequency or quiet sounds. Set your preferences for both ears or separately for each ear.
• Turn Sound Amplifier on and off using the Accessibility button, a gesture or Quick Settings. Learn more about the Accessibility button, gesture and Quick Settings: https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/7650693

Requirements
• Available for Android 8.1 and later.
• Pair your Android device with headphones.
• Conversation mode is currently available on Pixel 3 and above.

Send us your feedback on Sound Amplifier by emailing: sound-amplifier-help@google.com. For help using Sound Amplifier, connect with us at https://g.co/disabilitysupport.

Permissions notice
Microphone: Access to the microphone will allow Sound Amplifier to process the audio for amplification and filtering. No data is collected or stored.
Accessibility service: Since this app is an accessibility service, it can observe your actions, retrieve window content and observe text that you type.
Updated on
17 Jun 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Audio and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted
Independent security review

Ratings and reviews

3,7
77,9K reviews
Volker Siegel
13 September 2020
It works - except that it produced a very high pitched and very loud sound, somehow a feedback problem, but there could be something more. The sound is so extremely loud and high that it is directly harmful too the ear. And it is so high that it may be outside of the useful audio frequencies. It needs to be filtered out. The feedback problem is unavoidable, of course. But this is not just a tone that cold be a real noise. I used a simple headset of the type earbuds with small device in the cable, which contains a button and a tiny microphone hole. It gave me tinnitus after about a minute.
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23 September 2024
So far, it's everything I need. And, I don't know what they are saying about not working with blue tooth—edited; I had given it a five-star rating but now I've dropped it down to four because although the app works excellent it's missing an important feature and that is, a volume control as it would appear on the screen with the other controls—this would make the app complete ¿`_
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Steve Barbieri
10 August 2024
I have a Bluetooth Bose and the app worked on it initially and it was amazing. It brought out sounds in the Trance music That I did not know existed in the song.I was listening to amazing... Now I go back into the app to turn it on and it's looking for headphones. Wireless or wired, it will not turn on. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it, and it's doing the same thing.What is the problem???????
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