# The audience app (/docs/audience-app)

The audience answers on their phones in a web page at `link.livingstorieslab.com`. It opens from the QR code of a live show. See [How the audience joins](/docs/presenting/joining).

## Screens [#screens]

- **Waiting:** the story's title in its colours, until the show starts and between interactions.
- **Interaction:** the question, the way to answer, and a bar that counts down the voting window. After answering, the phone confirms the answer was sent.
- **End:** shown when the show ends.

Where the phone supports it, it buzzes when a new question arrives. The screen stays on during the show. The audience can leave at any time with the leave button.

## Each kind of interaction [#each-kind-of-interaction]

| Interaction | On the phone |
| --- | --- |
| Poll | The answers as buttons. Tap one. |
| Text | A text field. Type an answer and send it. |
| Audio · Speech | Speak an answer. The phone asks for the microphone first. |
| Audio · Noise | Make noise. Louder reaches the outer ring. |
| Touch movement · Directional | Two answers as buttons. Tap one. |
| Touch movement · Scale | A slider between two labels. Drag the dot. |
| Touch movement · Yes / no | Two answers, yes and no. Tap one. |

Each answer takes the colour of its outcome from the story's [theme](/docs/writing/settings#theme).

## Microphone and voice answers [#microphone-and-voice-answers]

Speech and noise need the microphone. If the audience blocks it, they can't answer that interaction. Voice answers don't work in every browser; the page says so when they don't.