Do you regularly get speech messages on WhatsApp, but can’t you always listen to them? This way you convert speech messages into text in WhatsApp!
WhatsApp Speech messages
WhatsApp offers different ways to send messages. It is possible to share text, video or speech messages in conversations on WhatsApp. Do you regularly receive speech messages? Then it must have happened that you are not able to play the recorded message. In that case you had to wait for a suitable time to be able to listen to the audio message.
That has changed, because it is finally possible to convert speech messages into text messages in WhatsApp. With the new function you can request transcripts from all speech messages, so that you can already read the spoken text. That is extremely useful, especially if you can’t play a speech message. Curious how your speech messages convert into transcripts? Watch how you do that in the video:
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Switch on transcripts
Do you want to convert speech messages into text in WhatsApp? Then you first have to switch on the new function ‘transcript’. Make sure whatsapp has been updated to the latest version, so that you can be sure that you can use the feature. The transcripts are now available in many different languages, including Dutch. You set the transcripts on WhatsApp as follows:
- Open ‘WhatsApp’ on your iPhone;
- Go to ‘Settings’;
- Tap ‘chats’;
- Turn on the switch ‘transcripts of speech messages’;
- Finally, select the language of the transcript.
Have you enabled the transcripts? Then you can convert speech messages into text in WhatsApp. To do this, go to a conversation with an audio message. Hold down the speech message and tap ‘Create Transcript’. Subsequently, WhatsApp needs to transcribe the message, depending on the duration of the audio message. The transcript is only visible to yourself, other contacts do not see this in the conversation.
More about WhatsApp
Good to know: transcripts of speech messages in WhatsApp are generated on your iPhone. In this way the text of the speech messages remains end-to-end encrypted in WhatsApp. No one outside the conversation can listen or read the content of the audio messages, even if you request a transcript. Due to the end-to-end security, the (audio) message is even encrypted for WhatsApp itself.
So whatsapp has a handy function on the iPhone. With transcripts enabled you decide for yourself whether you listen to speech messages, whether she would rather read. Transcribating is not yet fully working properly, so it can happen that there are gaps in the text of the speech report on WhatsApp. It is expected that WhatsApp will improve soon. Did you find this tip handy? View more articles about WhatsApp here:
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