Crores of people are using WhatsApp for chatting, calling, and file sharing. This instant messaging app of Meta is used in more than 200 countries. You must also be using this app for your private chat.

Has it ever happened to you when you received voice messages on WhatsApp and you were hesitant to listen to it among friends or in a public place? If yes then this information may be useful for you.

Do you know that there is a facility to read voice messages instead of listening to them on WhatsApp? Yes, WhatsApp offers the facility of voice message transcripts to its users.

What is a WhatsApp voice message transcript?
First of all, let us try to understand what voice message transcripts are. Actually, with Voice Message Transcript on WhatsApp, voice messages can be read along with text.

A voice message transcript is a text version of a voice message. This message remains between the sender and the receiver only.

WhatsApp claims that even after converting this message from voice to text, it is neither heard by WhatsApp nor does the company read this message. This message is also end-to-end encrypted by WhatsApp.

Which users can use the feature?
You can use this feature only if you use WhatsApp on your iPhone. Actually, at present such a facility is not offered by the company on WhatsApp for Android users.

Android users can avail of professional services from TranscribeMe. However, this is a separate service which becomes paid after the trial.

Important things related to voice message transcript
This feature of WhatsApp works only for voice messages with a time-duration of less than 2 minutes.

This feature of WhatsApp works for iOS 16 and later operating systems.

Hey, Siri must be enabled on iPhone for voice message transcripts.

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