WhatsApp introduced on Thursday it’s rolling out voice message transcripts. The Meta-owned firm says the brand new function will come in useful once you’re on the transfer or in a loud place the place you possibly can’t take heed to a voice message. The same function was introduced final yr for Apple’s Message app, a high WhatsApp competitor, with the discharge of Apple’s software program replace, iOS 17.
With the brand new function, voice messages may be transcribed into textual content that can assist you sustain with conversations once 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 function, you have to go into your settings, choose the “Chats” part, after which faucet “Voice message transcripts” to show the function on. From there, you possibly can choose your transcript language.
After you flip the function on, you will get a transcript for a voice message by long-pressing it after which tapping the “transcribe” possibility. It is not going to robotically transcribe each message for you.
Voice message transcripts are rolling out globally over the approaching weeks in choose languages, the corporate says.
On iOS, the languages which might be supported rely in your OS. When you have iOS 16+, the supported languages embody English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Chinese language, and Arabic. When you have iOS 17+, the supported languages embody Danish, End, Malay, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Hebrew, and Thai.
When you have an Android, you possibly can entry transcripts in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian.
WhatsApp plans so as to add help for extra languages within the coming months.
