Soon, you will be able to say goodbye to listening to voice notes if you don’t want to, as WhatsApp proposes a new functionality that will end them. Voice notes are both loved and hated, and ever since their implementation in applications such as WhatsApp or Telegram, there has been a conflict for and against them. While some users hate them because they consider them unnecessary because everything can be transmitted in writing, others love them.
Behind this love for voice notes, a certain appreciation for podcasts can be found, as upon receiving a voice note, two approaches can be taken. The first method regards voice notes as a boon because they allow for an inactive conversation and allow the message to be listened to while performing another task.
The second approach is oppressed by the voice note, whose duration is a sentence that can be short or absurdly long. WhatsApp wants to offer a respite or, at least, a solution to this feeling, and the feature they are working on will allow you to never have to listen to a voice note again if you don’t want to.
It’s as simple as that. No more listening to voice notes against your will. This may seem like a revolution, but Telegram already implemented it a couple of updates ago.
What has WhatsApp exactly developed? The simple answer is that it’s a transcriber that will convert voice notes to text. That’s all there is to it, and the simplicity of this feature will allow for any type of voice note to be converted into a message within the conversation in the application.