Voice messages, cross and delight of today's messaging apps. Fantastic for sending short communications in the blink of an eye, especially if you are in a hurry or are so busy that you cannot write, terrible when they come from the most talkative friend of the group.
WhatsApp, with its very fresh news that comes straight from the beta channel, has just taken a decisive step forward to make everyday life more sustainable for those who are targeted by long or very long voice messages. In fact, for a few hours it has been possible to speed up the reproduction of a voice message, sent or received, in a very simple way. Not an absolute novelty since competing apps such as Telegram have been providing this possibility for a long time, but WhatsApp, this is nothing new, it prefers to proceed at a slower pace by inserting the novelties only when it is sure they can do well and have been developed in the right way. correct.
Fast playback of WhatsApp vocals
Speeding up a voice message on WhatsApp, as mentioned, is very simple: after the usual tap on the play button to start playback, the WhatsApp profile image of the sender that voice message is replaced by the “1x” indicator, which emphasizes that playback is proceeding at normal speed.
A touch on this new indication with a gray background switches to 1.5x playback, while a second touch switches to 2x, i.e. listening at double speed. Finally, a third tap returns to normal 1x speed playback.
This is the case at least on iOS where the novelty seems to have been distributed to a good number of WhatsApp users, while in the Android environment the release seems to proceed at a slower pace. According to the information in our possession, the release of the accelerated reproduction of WhatsApp vocals also proceeds hand in hand on WhatsApp web, the application of the Facebook subsidiary for PC and Mac.
It seems that the version of the application that introduces the fast playback of vowels on Android is the number 2.21.9.15 of the stable channel, while for iOS it is the number 2.21.100.15. Both report in the changelog (the list of new features) "Now you can listen to voice messages at different speeds by activating them with the 1x/1.5x/2x keys while the message is being played".
The arrival of fast playback and how to get it
Fast playback of vowels was first introduced on WhatsApp Beta – the channel for those who want to preview the upcoming news for everyone at the cost of a few instability of the service – , then withdrawn and finally made available again for all users of the beta service.
Finally, in these hours, WhatsApp has decided to offer everyone this important step forward in managing conversations, which can sometimes be quite useful – especially in large groups.
To get it, you need to check for updates to the WhatsApp application. Doing so is once again very simple: on iOS you have to open the App Store, touch the App item at the bottom and scroll the page that opens until you see the pending updates; on Android you have to open the Play Store, touch your photo at the top right, then Manage apps and device and also check the list of apps awaiting updates here.