speakerphone

English

Alternative forms

• speaker phone

Etymology

From speaker +‎ phone.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈspiːkəˌfəʊn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈspikɚˌfoʊn/

Noun

speakerphone (plural speakerphones)

1. A telephone with a microphone and loudspeaker separate from those in the handset.
2. A loudspeaker on a telephone that broadcasts the sound, in order to use it hands-free.
   • 2026 June 23, Will Walden, quotee, “‘Geldof started flicking Vs at Farage’: the story of the Brexit campaign, told by those with a front-row seat”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     It wasn’t on speakerphone, and I could still hear him [Boris Johnson] shouting and swearing

3. A feature on a phone that reroutes audio through the phone's external speaker, rather than the earpiece.

Translations

telephone with a microphone and loudspeaker separate from those in the handset

• Danish: medhør n
• German: Freisprechtelefon (de) n, Freisprechgerät n, Freisprechanlage (de) f, Freisprecheinrichtung (de) f

loudspeaker on a telephone that broadcasts the sound — see also loudspeaker

• German: Lautsprechtelefon n, Lautsprechertelefon n
• Portuguese: viva-voz f (Brazil), alta-voz f (Portugal)

See also

• earpiece