Telescope 3.2.0

Telescope 3.2 makes your microphone behave better. The phone picks you up from across the desk now, and the Microphone card got a meter, mute, gain and a limiter.

New

Louder phone mic. The phone used to record the way a phone call does, tuned for a phone at your mouth, so from a desk away it came through very quiet. It now records the way the camera app does for video. Update the phone app to get this.

Level meter. The Microphone card shows how loud the mic is while it's on and streaming. A line holds the latest peak for a moment, and the dot at the end lights up when something gets too loud: yellow when the limiter catches it, red when it clips. Click the meter to clear them.

Mute. A Mute button in the card's header sends silence to other apps without disconnecting the mic, for when the call app can't mute or it's out of reach. It's in the tray menu too, as Mute microphone. Telescope always starts unmuted, so you can't end up muted without noticing.

Gain. Turn the mic up to +12 dB or down to -24 dB with the slider, or type an exact value in the box next to it. It's saved per phone. Advanced lets the slider go further, up to +24, +36 or +48 dB.

Limiter. Laughs, coughs and other sudden loud bits are held just under the top smoothly instead of crackling. It's on by default; switch it off under Microphone in Advanced.

Fixed

• Advanced no longer grows taller than the screen. The settings scroll, and Close stays where you can reach it.

Found something broken? Open an issue and paste your Copy diagnostics report into it.