Audio messages are one of those things you love or hate. On the one hand, they can be incredibly useful in many situations, especially if you can’t get down to typing on the touchscreen at the time; This is why they are so popular in messaging apps like WhatsApp.
[WhatsApp lanza globalmente una esperada función para los audios: escucha uno y chatea a la vez]
But for many people, audio messages are pretty much the worst thing in the world. They are a distraction, forcing us to stop what we were doing to start listening to a message full of unnecessary pauses, noises and details, when we could just be reading what they want to tell us.
Android Messages vs. Audios
Now, Google’s Messages app, which comes by default on many Android phones, has the solution, using machine learning technology to transcribe audio message content into readable text.
The new feature was discovered by 9to5Google in the app’s latest APK, which reveals the existence of future features that have not yet been enabled by Google. The most striking is the transcription of audio messages which, as its name suggests, can listen to the message and write its content so we just have to read it.
Google AI can listen to the message and transcribe it
Google’s description indicates that this function is ideal for situations in which we cannot listen to the recorded message they sent us, allowing us to understand what they want to tell us and respond if necessary. Of course it seems that it is still in development, because in 9to5Google they have been able to test it and they claim that it is slow and inaccurate, especially compared to the dictation function that is already available in Google Assistant, so it’s it is possible that they are not using the same code.
Even so, it will be a very welcome novelty if we use messages to send audio, something many people probably don’t know it can do. As they will also appreciate the new emoji selector, the other novelty of the application that will allow us to choose between any of the emojis installed on the mobile and not only between those that come by default in the application.
