WhatsApp isn’t just for sending text messages or making audio and video calls. The instant messaging application, owned by Meta, is also increasingly used to send voice messages. This is probably the reason why the messaging system looked into this functionality and decided to modernize it by adding several new features.
WhatsApp has just announced the deployment of new functions that have so far been sorely lacking for all its users. You can now listen to “vocals” outside of the conversation, and even outside of the application. Now you can do something else by listening to the audio message sent by a loved one.
Another particularly interesting novelty, the application now allows you to start a voice recording, pause it and then resume it if you are interrupted or if you no longer know what you want to say. The application also displays a visualization curve that allows you to immediately see the passages during which your interlocutor speaks. WhatsApp also allows you to pause the playback of a voice message for later resumption and even offers an option to increase the playback speed of forwarded messages (x1.5 and x2).
Finally, and this is great news, you can now listen to a message before sending it. All you have to do is press and hold the record button and slide your finger over the padlock icon.
Launched in 2013, voice messages have the advantage of being easier and faster to send than text messages which require the attention of their sender to be written. In total, WhatsApp indicates that more than 7 billion voice messages are exchanged daily by users.
Source: Meta