WhatsApp announces new updates for voice messages

The draft preview feature allows users to listen to their voice messages before sending them.

WhatsApp is announcing new features to improve the voice messaging experience on the platform. Every day on WhatsApp, users send an average of seven billion voice messages, all of which are protected by end-to-end encryption, Meta’s messaging platform claimed in a blog post.

The new updates announced by WhatsApp include concept preview, ability to pause/resume recording, play outside of chat, resume play, and waveform visualization. The draft preview feature allows users to listen to their voice messages before sending them.

Pause and record

When recording a voice message, users can now pause the recording and continue where they were when they finished. The Chat Playback feature allows users to listen to a voice message outside of chat to help them multitask or read and respond to other messages.

Waveform visualization function shows a visual representation of the sound on the voice message to help track the recording. The ‘Remember Play’ feature allows users to pick up where they left off while playing a message.

“If you pause when listening to a voice message, you can pick up where you left off when you return to chat,” it explained. Users can now also play voice messages at 1.5x or 2x speed to listen to messages faster on both regular and forwarded messages. These features will be rolled out to the platform in the coming weeks.

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