The fight to be the messaging application par excellence for all users is served, and it is that despite WhatsApp has been the queen all its life, Telegram is pushing hard, something that is great for users since it also pushes WhatsApp to implement functions like the one we are going to tell you about in this post.
It goes without saying that Telegram at a functional level is a much more complete application than WhatsApp , however, it still has the great advantage that it was the first to arrive, or at least, the first to become popular within the entire society, and It is already known that human beings find it very difficult to change when something more or less meets what we need.
However, as we said, it is not only that Telegram has more functions, it is that these continue to grow over time, which means that WhatsApp also has to get up to speed so as not to be so distanced from its competition, hence A novelty has been known this week that many users will find wonderful.
Audio transcription comes to WhatsApp
The latest beta version of WhatsApp has included a function that will certainly be great for all those users who need to use the accessibility controls of certain apps in order to communicate. In the end, the transcription of audio to text is not just one more option that the vast majority of us can use, but it is a really important facility for many other users who have mobility problems.
The operation is really simple, since the user will only have to say the message he wants to send, and the app itself will take care of transforming that audio into written text . Now, as we have mentioned before, it is a function that is being tested, that is, it is a beta version of what will surely end up arriving, hopefully soon, to all users.
At the moment, one of the limitations is that it is only capable of transcribing messages that are in the same language in which the application is configured, so if you have the app in Spanish and want to use this function to send a message in English, we are sorry to tell you that at the moment, you will not be able to do it.
Of course, something that can worry users a lot is privacy , well, it seems that this new function works so that the audios that users make so that the app transcribes them into text do not come out of the device itself, a really point positive and that must be taken into account when using it. In addition, it must be taken into account that this function will reach all WhatsApp users, which is a great advantage over Telegram, which already has it, but only for users who pay for the Premium version. Of course, at the moment it is only available in the iOS version , so Android users will have to wait to take advantage of the audio-to-text transcription.