WhatsApp is getting better voice messages in the next few weeks

WhatsApp introduced on Wednesday that it’ll roll out some enhancements to voice messages over the approaching weeks, together with the flexibility to take heed to a message whereas studying different chats and play messages at 1.5 or 2 instances velocity (sure, please, put this characteristic in all places).

The expertise of recording messages can also be bettering. WhatsApp now helps you to pause and resume your recording, so that you don’t have to depart massive gaps of silence in case you’re pondering of what to say subsequent or redo a recording if you should have a quick dialog in actual life. You’ll additionally have the ability to take heed to a message earlier than you ship it to be sure to didn’t unintentionally get reduce off or embody one thing you didn’t need to.

There’s additionally a slight aesthetic enchancment. As a substitute of simply utilizing a line to indicate your voice message playback progress, WhatsApp will now use a waveform of the particular message. Plus, WhatsApp can keep in mind the place you have been while you paused playback and allow you to begin enjoying again from that time once more so that you don’t must re-listen to a complete message.

These enhancements will possible get numerous use — WhatsApp says that customers ship a median of seven billion voice chats a day. Whereas some comparable options have been already obtainable in different apps (Telegram, for instance, has allow you to take heed to messages outdoors chats for some time), it’s undoubtedly good to see WhatsApp’s model getting some consideration.