WhatsApp announce a series of updates for voice messages to make it easier for users to communicate with their contacts on the platform using voice notes. This updates include features such as the ability to pause and resume voice message recordings, waveform visualisation, out of chat playback, and draft preview that were already available to some users.
WhatsApp also introduce a remember playback feature as fast playback on forward voice messages.
And WhatsApp also announce that its users every day send seven billion voice messages on an average.
WhatsApp has brought as a part of its voice message-focus updates is the out of chat playback feature.
This feature lets you listen to your voice messages outside of the chat so you can multitask or read and respond to other chats on the app simultaneously.
Your active voice message will not run in the background if you leave WhatsApp or switch to a different app.
This feature initially refer to as a global voice message player, was initially spot in testing among iOS beta testers in January.
It was also roll out to some iPhone users last month.
This feature was also recently spot in development for desktop users.
WhatsApp has also adds the ability to pause and resume voice messages that lets you gather your thoughts or just restart your recording in case you’re interrupt once.
This feature was roll out to some users on the iPhone in January and was spot in beta testing for Android and desktop users in recently.
The next major update to voice messages on WhatsApp is waveform visualisation.
It brings a visual representation of the sound on the voice message to help users follow the recording.
The visualisation also appears when you’re listening to voice messages you have receive from your contacts.
WhatsApp had been testing waveform visualisation with beta testers on Android and iOS for the last few months.
WhatsApp has additionally brings the remember playback feature to let you pick up your voice messages where you left off when you return to a particular chat after pausing them.
There is also fast playback support on forward messages to let you play voice messages at 1.5x or 2x speeds to listen to messages faster in case of forwarded messages.
WhatsApp introduce fast playback support on regular messages.
It was also spot in beta testing before coming to the general public.
WhatsApp is rolling out the new features for voice messages to all users in the coming weeks.
It would take some time to reach your device.
Users make sure you have the latest version of WhatsApp install to get the latest experience as soon as it’s available.
WhatsApp is also broadening the rollout of draft preview for voice messages to let you listen to them before sending to your contacts.
It was initially roll out to some users in December.
WhatsApp first launch voice messages on its platform back in 2013.
