WhatsApp introduced on Thursday it’s rolling out voice message transcripts. The Meta-owned firm says the brand new characteristic will turn out to be useful while you’re on the transfer or in a loud place the place you may’t take heed to a voice message. An identical characteristic was introduced final 12 months for Apple’s Message app, a prime WhatsApp competitor, with the discharge of Apple’s software program replace, iOS 17.
With the brand new characteristic, voice messages might be transcribed into textual content that can assist you sustain with conversations while you’re unable (or maybe unwilling) to take heed to a voice message. WhatsApp claims its transcripts are generated in your system and nobody else can learn them.
To entry the brand new WhatsApp characteristic, that you must go into your settings, choose the “Chats” part, after which faucet “Voice message transcripts” to show the characteristic on. From there, you may choose your transcript language.
Upon getting turned on the characteristic you may get a transcript for a voice message by long-pressing it after which tapping the “transcribe” choice. It won’t routinely transcribe each message for you, that’s.
Voice message transcripts are rolling out globally over the approaching weeks in choose languages, the corporate says.
On iOS, the languages which are supported rely in your OS. When you’ve got iOS 16+, the supported languages embrace English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Chinese language, and Arabic. When you’ve got iOS 17+, the supported languages embrace Danish, End, Malay, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Hebrew, and Thai.
When you’ve got an Android, you may entry transcripts in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian.
WhatsApp plans so as to add help for extra languages within the coming months.
