Another important news at home WhatsAppand this time it’s something really important. Very soon, in fact, it will be possible to have voice messages transcribed, which will be automatically reported in text by the application.
Users have been waiting for this feature from the platform for a long time. There transcription of messages It could be useful for those who have hearing problems, or for those who do not want to listen to vocals for any reason. Not only that. The function can be used in those circumstances in which listening to a voice is not appropriate and reading a text is more required.
We are therefore waiting for the next one updatewhich will be on a global scale. At the moment the transcription will only concern audio in English, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian, but in the coming months the function will also be extended to the Italian language. “Voice messages can be transcribed into text so you can always follow your conversations, whatever you’re doing. Transcripts are generated on your device so that no one else, not even WhatsApp, can hear or read your personal messages“, is what we read on the WhatsApp blog.
The transcription of vowels will however take place in compliance with the privacy of users, which will absolutely be maintained. In fact, everything will be processed locally, i.e. on the user’s device, so no one else will be able to access the content.
To take advantage of the message transcription function you need to go to Settings and look for it Chat. At that point you need to choose the option Transcriptions of voice messages to be able to activate or deactivate transcription and decide the language. Once this is set, just hold down the message and tap on Transcribein this way we will have the transcription of the whole vocal. It may also happen, however, that a certain audio is impossible to process, and the message is given Transcription not available. It can happen both due to language problems and the presence of background noise.
“In the coming weeks, transcripts will be available worldwide in some languages selected and we will add more in the coming months“, says the WhatsApp team.