WhatsApp introduced on Thursday it’s rolling out voice message transcripts. The Meta-owned firm says the brand new function will come in useful if you’re on the transfer or in a loud place the place you possibly can’t take heed to a voice message. An identical function was introduced final yr for Apple’s Message app, a prime WhatsApp competitor, with the discharge of Apple’s software program replace, iOS 17.
With the brand new function, voice messages will be transcribed into textual content that can assist you sustain with conversations if you’re unable (or maybe unwilling) to take heed to a voice message. WhatsApp claims its transcripts are generated in your machine and nobody else can learn them.
To entry the brand new WhatsApp function, you could 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.
Once you’ve gotten turned on the function you will get a transcript for a voice message by long-pressing it after which tapping the “transcribe” possibility. It is not going to mechanically 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 might be supported rely in your OS. If you’ve gotten iOS 16+, the supported languages embody English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, and Arabic. If you’ve gotten iOS 17+, the supported languages embody Danish, Finish, Malay, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Hebrew, and Thai.
If you’ve gotten an Android, you possibly can entry transcripts in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian.
WhatsApp plans so as to add help for added languages within the coming months.