Still waiting for message transcripts to arrive on your phone? Well, don't wait any longer, because most likely you already have it but you just haven't activated them. This happens because converting voice notes to text, one of WhatsApp's most anticipated new features, is not enabled by default.
Now enable message transcription to know what an audio says without having to listen to it and without your audios being sent anywhere for transcription. We also tell you how to use WhatsApp audio transcription.
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How to enable WhatsApp audio transcription
You've probably heard that WhatsApp is preparing an in-app feature for convert the audios they send you to textwithout having to listen to them. This new feature is eagerly awaited by those who hate WhatsApp audios, and it made its timid debut on iPhones last year. Now it is also available on Android, but you need to activate it.
You can easily check if audio transcription is enabled on your WhatsApp by opening the settings menu, entering the Discussions and see if the adjustment appears Voicemail transcriptions. Follow these steps:
- Open WhatsApp and tap the menu button ⋮
- Press Settings.
- Enter Discussions.
- Enable the option Message transcriptions.
When you do, WhatsApp will show you an information window in which it will tell you that these transcriptions are made on the mobile phone itself, so that no one else can listen to the audios. You must press Select language to download the audio recognition package that allows this to happen.
Then comes the time to choose the transcription languagewhich is the language that will be used to recognize the audios. You have four languages to choose from at the moment: English, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian and you have to choose the one in which you receive the most audios on WhatsApp.
Language packs they occupy a little over 100 MB and they must complete the download before the novelty is operational and ready to use on your WhatsApp.
How to transcribe audios in WhatsApp
It is also important to activate the function as know how audios are transcribedbecause it is not something that happens automatically. You must choose to transcribe audio manually.
To do this, you need to do a long press on the audio to activate the selection mode which will activate the ⋮ menu at the top. This is where you should press. Transcribe. Here are the steps to convert WhatsApp audios to text:
- Long press the audio to select it.
- Press menu ⋮
- Press Transcribe.
- The transcription will take a few seconds.
The translation of an audio appears just below like text in quotation marks. The words that you have not understood appear as lines, but despite this, this novelty helps a lot to know what a WhatsApp audio is about without having to read it.
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