If you don’t like voice notes and yet they keep sending them to you, you’ll soon have a way to avoid them altogether: WhatsApp will convert them to text directly, without having to use bots or special applications.
Since last year WhatsApp for iOS can transcribe voice notes using the built-in technology of iOS. There were doubts about whether to convert voice notes to text It would also be coming to Android, although we finally found out and now it is being activated for a handful of users for the first time.
You won’t need to listen to another voice note.
Whether you like them or not, voice notes are more intrusive than text because they force you to listen to the entire 48 minutes of text with full attention, whereas text messages can be read bit by bit. If you don’t like voice notes, you’ll soon be able to listen to them. WhatsApp will give you a hand so you don’t have to listen to them.
The WhatsApp voice message transcription It’s already rolling out to a few users on Android, while it’s been available on iOS since last year. When this feature is available on your phone
The only configuration you need to make is to choose the language of the transcription: Spanish, English, Portuguese, Russian or Hindi. Each choice means that the corresponding language pack is downloaded and takes up just over 100 MB.
Then you’ll see a message appear below the voice note with the text “Would you like to read this message with a transcript? Get started.”
Then you will see just below each voice note a text in quotes with the transcription we tested it on iOS, and the result was very good, although this uses iOS recognition and WhatsApp on Android will use its own. In addition, the recognition will depend a lot on the quality of the audio and the content of the voice note.
This means that those who want to continue recording voice notes will be able to continue doing so and Those who do not want to listen to them will be able to know what they say without having to reproduce them.
According to WaBetaInfo, transcription is now rolling out to “some users in certain regions” with the beta version. It is expected to take some time before it is activated for everyone.
