URL: https://help.carbonvoice.app/account-and-settings/recording-and-playback
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# Recording & playback settings

Open your **Profile Menu**, then **Settings → Recording & Playback**.

## How recording starts

By default you can **press and hold** the mic button to record, and release to send. If
that has been producing accidental recordings for you, single-tap recording can be turned
off here.

## Raise to your ear

Turn this on and bringing your phone to your ear starts playing the unread messages in the
conversation, the way answering a call does. Playback pauses when you lower the phone and
picks up again when you raise it.

It's the easiest way to listen privately when you don't have headphones.

## Playback speed

Speed is set per playback rather than in settings. See
[Playback speed](https://help.carbonvoice.app/messages/playback/playback-speed).

## Related

- [How to record a voice message](https://help.carbonvoice.app/messages/recording-and-sending/record-a-voice-message)
- [Conversation history settings](https://help.carbonvoice.app/conversations/access-and-sharing/conversation-history-settings)