If using Raise to Speak, how listen to your audio text message before sending?

Ah, right. For me, I can initiate a message either by holding the microphone icon or by using raise to speak.

When you're in the Messages app and the text field is indicating 'iMessage', and you raise your phone to your ear, a tone doesn't sound?

I did find this discussion with someone else who previously could use raise to talk but after upgrading to 8.4 no longer could: Unable to use raise to talk feature

Anyway, thanks for helping clarify my original issue!

Hmm... I have no problem initiating an audio message in the Messages app with this Raise to Talk feature (which has nothing to do with Siri) on my iPhone 5s with iOS 9. In the Messages app, when in a thread, I just raise my phone to my ear and a tone sounds, and I start recording. Then the other person uses Raise to Listen to listen to that audio message. It seems that when you use Raise to Listen, it's to listen to messages created through Raise to Talk, no?

I'm in the US, using English.

Right, I see what you're saying -- there's no separate setting for Raise to Talk. Maybe 'Raise to Listen' is just the general name for 'raise to listen and talk'. I'm in a thread in Messages and the last message from my friend is either a regular text message or an audio text message, I raise my phone to my ear and a tone sounds. Then I start speaking. So I can either be responding to an existing audio message or initiating an audio message.

I guess we could say that Raise to Listen allows you to raise to listen, and reply, and initiate! I just prefer to name the two features separately -- raise to listen, and raise to talk. Maybe Apple calls them all Raise to Listen, but that seems very confusing! But you definitely can initiate.

When you say you can respond to but not initiate an audio message with your own audio message, how else would that initial audio message be created except by using Raise to Talk? Somebody has to have been the initiator, and don't they use what I'm calling Raise to Talk for that?

?? I'm raising the phone to speak, not to listen.

[Later -- ah, I think it's now called Raise to Talk, possibly to distinguish it from the pre-iOS 8 Raise to Speak.]