Voice chat with strangers: mic only, free

1. Confirm you are an adult and tap the mic button (Tap to start). You can pick what you are here for; the other person sees it, but it does not change who you meet.
2. Allow the microphone when your browser asks. If you block it, the screen says "Microphone blocked", and you can allow it in the browser and try again.
3. Wait for a match. Nine in ten voice calls were matched within 48 seconds (7 Oct–5 Nov 2026); you can cancel at any time.
4. Talk. Mute, End and Report are on the call screen, Next finds someone new, and Auto-next starts the next search as soon as the other person leaves.

Three things go wrong often enough to plan for. Between 7 October and 5 November 2026, the audio never connected on about 6% of calls, a mic was not sending on 8.5% of connected calls, and the mic failed before the call on 2.7% of Start taps.

When the audio never connects, the call ends. If the call came from a voice search and you are both on the website, you both get one question: switch to text with this person? It happens only if you both say yes; otherwise you both go back to the queue, and you are not paired by voice with that person again for a while.

When your mic is unmuted but sends nothing for 5 seconds, the call shows "Your mic isn't sending" with a Restart mic button, which asks the browser for the microphone again. On Android it also points to the Microphone toggle in Quick Settings and suggests closing other apps that use the mic; with earphones, it suggests unplugging them. Firefox shows this warning only when the mic has stopped completely, so on Firefox also check the mic icon in the address bar.

When the mic fails before the call, the reason is usually the permission. Of the 179 failures, 75 were a prompt that was dismissed or blocked and 67 were a denied permission; 26 were a mic already in use by another app, 10 had no mic at all, and one had another cause. Allow the microphone for hearme.chat in your browser's site settings, close other apps using it, and tap the mic button again. Keep the call screen in front, because a phone that locks or switches apps can stop your mic.

• No camera: the browser is asked for the microphone alone. Our Omegle page explains why we left video out.
• No recording: the one exception is a report made during a call on the website.
• No hiding your IP from the other person's browser: to set up a call, your browser and theirs swap network (IP) addresses and try to reach each other directly. Typed chats travel through our servers instead. What the other person sees is on the home page.
• No group calls: one person at a time.
• No free filters on calls: a women-or-men or country preference is a Premium Plus feature, and it relaxes to anyone after a short wait. What each plan adds is on the home page.
• No live listening: nobody monitors a call while it happens.

Tap Report during a call. On the website it sends up to the last 60 seconds of the other person's audio for a person to review, and the clip is deleted within 7 days unless a moderator confirms a child-safety or under-18 report. Between 7 October and 5 November 2026, 17 reports were made from voice calls, and half were closed within about 4.5 hours. How Report and Block work has the rest.