Say goodbye to WhatsApp voice notes forever with this new feature coming soon

If you are one of those who hate receiving voice notes instead of text messages on whatsappyou’re lucky. After three years of development and more than one appearance in beta versions of the application, first for iOS and, as of this year, for Android, Meta launches voice note transcription for all mobile app users.

WhatsApp announced a new feature will be released worldwide, for both iOS and Android, “in the coming weeks.”. Voice notes that have been in the app since then 2013widely used, but also They are inconvenient for users for various reasons.. Either because reading a message is much faster than listening to it, or because you find yourself in situations where there is too much ambient noise, or you don’t want people around you to be able to hear you. They love each other or hate each other, but what is clear is that 7 billion voice messages circulate on the platform every day

many users will be in the first group.

Those with the latter will be able to treat voice notes much kinder thanks to the new feature. Meta emphasizes that The processing required to transcribe the audio is done on the device itself. user and that voice messages remain protected end-to-end encryption. “No one, not even WhatsApp, can listen to your voice messages.” and not see the contents of the transcripts‘, explains the WhatsApp support page.

Please note that transcription only available to the recipient of the voice note, not the senderand that the available languages ​​vary greatly depending on the platform. IN Android

Transcripts of voice messages will be available in English, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

IN iOSto iPhone from iOS 16In addition to those already mentioned, it can be transcribed in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Chinese and Arabic. WITH iOS 17 Added Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Malay, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish and Thai. In older versions of the Apple operating system, transcription will not be available. On Android there are no restrictions in this regard.

The increase in the number of languages ​​in iOS is likely due to the recommendation to use transcription. you need to activate the Siri assistant. If not, then when activating the option you will need to download the appropriate language pack. In the case of Android, there is no mention of any assistant to use this feature.

How to enable transcription of voice notes in WhatsApp

Meta noted that once implemented, this feature will be disabled by default

and it is the user who will have to change the setting. To activate transcription, you must perform the following steps:

• IN whatsappopen Settings (Android) / Configuration (iOS).
• Click on Chats.
• Active Voicemail Transcripts.
• Choose yours Transcription language.

How to transcribe a voice message on WhatsApp

After activating transcripts, you must perform the following steps:

• hold pressed voice message, then tap Decipher.
• Touch down arrow icon in the voice message to view more of the transcript.