It is undoubtedly one of the most used social networks in the world: YouTube. Refined and improved over the years, the application is about to add a functionality that is unexpected to say the least.
Sharing videos, shorts, stories, lives or even comments… YouTube could not have diversified more since its creation in 2005. The two billion people visiting the application each month now have a vast choice of content to punctuate their free time.
If YouTube is so popular with the population, it is thanks to its capacity for constant renewal, which allows it to evolve over the years. Today, a brand new feature is about to be integrated into the application: voice messages. TeamYouTube’s Meaghan shared the following message on the app: “We are experimenting with a feature that allows creators to respond to comments with their voices”.
A decisive addition to the relationships between YouTubers and subscribers
It may not be unusual for you to leave a comment on YouTube. Thanks to the next feature planned by the American application, the content creator of a video can respond to it via a voice message. The YouTuber can therefore maintain a more intimate and direct relationship with his subscribers by favoring voice rather than a simple written message.
As with any other comment, the voice message from the content creator is interactive: subscribers can both like it and respond to it in handwritten form. As is customary on other social networks, such as Snapchat, YouTube plans to integrate a transcription button under each voice message. Users will then be able to read a written version of the audio.
A feature currently in the testing phase
The voice comments should not appear on YouTube for many months. The feature is currently only accessible to a handful of American YouTubers. Voice messages are all the more difficult to access because only owners ofiPhone can listen to them. Computers and Android phones are not compatible with the feature.
YouTube has not specified whether ordinary users will also be able to send voice messages in the future. However, it seems unlikely that the feature will spread in this way, for the sake of moderation and security.