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WhatsApp announce on Thursday it ’s rolling out voice substance copy . The Meta - owned society says the newfangled feature will come in ready to hand when you ’re on the move or in a loud place where you ca n’t heed to a voice message . A similar feature wasannounced last yearfor Apple ’s Message app , a top WhatsApp competitor , with the spillage of Apple ’s software update , iOS 17 .
With the new lineament , voice message can be transcribed into text to facilitate you keep up with conversations when you ’re ineffective ( or perhaps unwilling ) to heed to a voice message . WhatsApp claims its transcripts are generated on your gadget and no one else can read them .
To get at the unexampled WhatsApp feature article , you need to go into your configurations , select the “ confabulation ” section , and then tap “ Voice message transcript ” to bend the feature of speech on . From there , you may select your transcript language .
After you turn the feature article on , you could get a copy for a voice substance by long - crusade it and then tapping the “ transcribe ” choice . It will not automatically transcribe every substance for you .
phonation message transcript are rolling out globally over the coming week in select languages , the company says .
On iOS , the language that are supported depend on your operating system . If you have iOS 16 + , the supported languages include English , Spanish , Gallic , German , Italian , Nipponese , Korean , Lusitanian , Russian , Turkish , Chinese , and Arabic . If you have iOS 17 + , the hold up linguistic communication admit Danish , Finish , Malay , Norwegian , Dutch , Swedish , Hebrew , and Thai .
If you have an Android , you’re able to access transcripts in English , Portuguese , Spanish , and Russian .
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WhatsApp be after to add reenforcement for additional languages in the coming months .
