Hey LiveKit staff- I am using the iOS SDK and have issues with users trying to speak to their phone 4-6 feet away. Are there any configuration parameters etc that I can modify to have LK perform better in situations where the user is not very close to the microphone?

My first thoughts would be to turn up the microphone gain, but I'm not an iOS engineer and I figured you had probably already tried that. I assume you would also run up against issues because noise cancellations is not designed to work at those distances. There were some AI suggestions here: https://deepwiki.com/search/i-am-using-the-ios-sdk-and-hav_78d0a1e9-5437-4a9d-9a5a-28c4ed29f539?mode=fast but since I'm not an expert in the iOS SDK, I can't say if those are hallucinations or not.

So I actually asked DZ this today and he said I shouldn't be using BVC as it is trained for a single speaker (2+ for my use case) and works much better for near field cases. Removed any noise cancellation from my agent and deployed. We'll see what my users say tomorrow!

Removed any noise cancellation from my agent and deployed.

I was hesitant to suggest removing all noice cancellation entirely but it all depends on the environment of your users I guess. Good luck

Thanks!