WhatsApp today announced updates to the voice messaging feature. The reason for the focus on this feature is simple: over 7 billion voice messages are sent via WhatsApp every day. So there’s finally support for pausing and resuming the recording of a voice message. With the new draft preview you can listen to the message again before sending it.
A much-requested feature is now also on board: Out of chat playback allows listening to voice messages outside of the chat in which they were sent. This allows you to run longer voice messages in the background while reading and replying to other messages. In addition, WhatsApp uses “Remember Playback” to remember where you stopped a voice message and continues playback appropriately.
Then there’s fast replay for forwarded messages, another self-explanatory feature that was long overdue. Normal messages could already be played at 1.5x or 2x speed, but not forwarded. Finally, WhatsApp also showed a feature that appeared in the Android app a few weeks ago: a waveform visualization that graphically displays the sound of the voice message “to follow the recording”.
All of the above features will be rolled out “in the coming weeks”.
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