Voice messages are a lot simpler to ship than typing, however, for some folks, rather more of a problem to hearken to than learn. At this time WhatsApp has formally launched a brand new characteristic that goals to alleviate the problems confronted by individuals who hate listening to voice messages.
Voice message transcripts are simply that. Voice messages will be transcribed into textual content “that can assist you sustain with conversations it doesn’t matter what you are doing”, WhatsApp says. The transcripts are generated in your system so nobody, not even WhatsApp, can hear or learn your private messages.
At present supported languages for transcripts are English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian on Android, whereas on iOS 16 they’re joined by French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Chinese language, and Arabic and on iOS 17 and later you additionally get Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Malay, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, and Thai.
To activate voice message transcripts, go to Settings, faucet Chats, and you will find the choice. Then, to transcribe a voice message, lengthy press on it and faucet on ‘transcribe’.
The brand new characteristic is rolling out globally “over the approaching weeks”. Extra languages will probably be added sooner or later.