How to transcribe voice messages to text

WhatsApp continues to introduce improvements to its architecture. Like every month, many new improvements are coming to the Metta-owned instant messaging app. After a long wait, one of the most loved by users is finally landing.

By: Clarion

The latest information is that WhatsApp will soon let you convert voice messages to text. Yes, no more listening to long voice memos. Now you can read them thanks to a new feature that lets you convert them to text.

Although there are tricks to transcribe audios, it is not an official functionality integrated into the Android app. As TheSpAndroid discovered, it will change with the next updates, the WhatsApp audio transcription function is already being tested in the beta version of the app.

Although this feature is new for Android users, the truth is that it is not new for WhatsApp. Transcription of voice notes to text for iOS was integrated into WhatsApp in May 2023, and Android users had to wait until 2024 for this to become possible.

Leaving aside the fact that WhatsApp generally prioritizes new features for iOS before Android, transcription of voice notes to text is still not available in the stable version of the app. This functionality was found in the latest beta version of the app.

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