If WhatsApp wants to make it easier to transcribe audio to convert it to text, it will now save the effort of translating a conversation into another language. This feature has been available on Telegram for a few years now to allow the translation of discussions with a person into another languageand soon on any mobile phone with the new Meta application.
Samsung surprised everyone this year with one of the most striking functions Galaxy AI in its flagships: the ability to automatically translate chats so they appear just below the line of text with simultaneous translation. Of course, there is a but, you have to use the Samsung keyboard to experience it.
WaBetaInfo has now discovered in WhatsApp the possibility of translating chat texts in a very simple way and thus switching from third-party applications for this purpose. The best of all is that the whole process will be done locally by being able to download language packs and thus translation becomes possible.
You just need to download the necessary package, click on the cat to select it and then in translation of the three-dot button
Google Translate is the service to which WhatsApp delegates the translation and as you can see in the screenshot, in which Spanish appears as the language, it warns that At no time will chats or SMS be sent to the servers
There is another important aspect to this WhatsApp experience and it concerns the translation which This will be done directly in the chat for communication to flow. Normally, what is done is to copy the text and paste it into another application to return to the conversation screen, so in this sense, the chat application takes the experience to the maximum.
As is the case with WhatsApp news, according to Android Police Thanks to WaBetaInfo, the ability to translate texts in chat has been available since beta version 2.24.15.8 for Android and only some users have been able to access it.