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WhatsApp on Thursday announced the rollout of voice message texts. The Meta-owned company says the new feature will come in handy when you’re on the go or in a noisy place where you can’t listen to a voice message. A similar feature was announced last year for Apple’s Messages app, one of WhatsApp’s biggest competitors, with the release of Apple’s software update, iOS 17.
With the new feature, voice messages can be converted to text to help you follow conversations when you are unable (or perhaps unwilling) to listen to a voice message. WhatsApp claims that its texts are generated on your device and cannot be read by anyone else.
To access the new WhatsApp feature, you have to go to Settings, select the Chats section, and then tap on Voice Message Texts to turn on the feature. From there, you can select the language of your text.
After turning on the feature, you can get the transcript of a voice message by long pressing on it and then clicking on the “Transcribe” option. It won’t automatically copy every message for you.
The company says Voice Message Texts will be rolled out globally in the coming weeks in select languages.
In iOS, supported languages depend on your operating system. If you have iOS 16+, supported languages include English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, and Arabic. If you have iOS 17+, supported languages include Danish, Finnish, Malay, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Hebrew, and Thai.
If you have an Android device, you can access texts in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian.
WhatsApp plans to add support for additional languages in the coming months.
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