WhatsApp finally arrives on Apple Watch and it’s surprisingly capable

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2025/11/whatsapp-apple-watch/

VORKON ra mắt: Nền tảng thu thập tin nhắn thoại, đánh giá & micro-podcast! 🎙️ Phân tích AI mạnh mẽ, tích hợp dễ dàng. Tuyệt vời cho phản hồi từ khách hàng, học viên. Đăng ký dùng thử miễn phí ngay!
#VORKON #voicemessages #micropodcast #AI #platform #Vietnamese #tinnhanthoai #phanhoi #congcu

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1n389i5/launching_vorkon_a_powerful_platform_for/

BBC: Grandmother gets X-rated message after Apple AI fail. “Louise Littlejohn, 66, received a voicemail message on Wednesday from a Lookers Land Rover garage in Motherwell inviting her to an event. An artificial intelligence (AI) powered service offered by Apple turned it into a text message which – to her surprise – asked if she been ‘able to have sex’ before calling her a ‘piece of ****’.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/09/bbc-grandmother-gets-x-rated-message-after-apple-ai-fail/

OpenAI is leveling up ChatGPT on WhatsApp! Now you can upload images, send voice messages, and link your existing ChatGPT account directly in the app. #AI #OpenAI #ChatGPT #WhatsApp #TechNews #Innovation #VoiceMessages #AIRevolution #DigitalTransformation

How to #flash and use a #lora #heltecv3 #rnode and #reticulum using #reticulummeshchat on #linux #linuxmint to send #textmessages and #voicemessages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNtQsykD0NA

The video is long but does show you how to do it and what to avoid. Highly recommended.

#chromium #DeviceFlasher

#meshtastic - like device and software BTW

WhatsApp is enhancing user experience with voice message transcripts, making audio notes accessible anytime, while ensuring privacy by generating transcripts directly on your phone.

#WhatsAppUpdates #VoiceMessages https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/whatsapp-rolls-out-voice-note-transcripts/733652/

Microsoft, thank you for Microsoft teams. For sending voice messages, can we get an option to let us tap once to record instead of holding down the button, which is in the corner of the screen so its pretty finicky and won't let me hold it down for some reason. if you need to make it 30 seconds max, that's fine, just let us press once to record please. Thank you.

#microsoftteams
#msteams
#family
#friends
#communication
#voicemessage
#voicemessages

draft - voice messages for google chat -

"To send a voice message in Google Chat, users must first tap the microphone icon and begin recording. Unlike other apps, users are not forced to hold down the microphone..."

this is the way. the requirement to hold down the mic button on screen is weird / unapproachable especially for some users. so the ability to just tap once to record makes more sense.

please can we have the option for all free users? thank you.

https://www.news18.com/tech/google-chat-introduces-voice-message-feature-for-select-users-how-it-works-8831044.html

related -
#googlechat
#family
#friends
#communication
#voicemessages
#cloudchat
#multipledevices
#multidevice
#backedupbydefault
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semi-related -
#microsoftteams
#slack
#microsoftteamsalternatives
#slackalternatives

draft - Microsoft thank you for Microsoft teams. Can you improve the snappiness of the chat function? It's already best in class feature wise. One thing, with voice messages, maybe after we long press to record, maybe it should stay recording until we tap the button again so that we don't have to hold it down manually.

#microsoftteamschat
#microsoftteams
#ideasformicrosoftteams
#teamschat
#family
#friends
#communication
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#googlechat
#slack
#voicemessages

Microsoft Teams is adding a Slack-favorite emoji feature / The ability to add custom emoji and reactions will be available for Teams users sometime in June.

draft - Ok. Can we also get an option for voice messages to just require tapping once instead of pressing the button nonstop while we record? Can we get free transcriptions for the voice messages we leave.

Also, can we get ability for tap to create video messages from within the app.

Also, search inside individual conversations instead of just teams-wide search.

Also, ability to place conversations into a silent mode for 3, 6, 12 hours or indefinitely so that all messages back and forth would be silent regardless of the users/recipients phone status

Also, can the sending of images show more than just a 2x2 grid in the mobile app? Currently it shows 4 images and then you have to tap to see more. How about just showing 8 images or even 12 images in a grid of 2x4 or 2x6 or 3x4 etc if we want without the need to tap to see more

Also, Microsoft teams is better than iMessage because it works across all major platforms including iOS, Android, web etc...

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/21/24160828/microsoft-teams-custom-emoji-reactions-preview

#microsoftteams
#ideasformicrosoftteams
#microsoftteamsideas
#msteams
#crossplatform
#communication
#friends
#family
#photos
#voicemessages
#photosharing
#editbutton
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#googlechat
#slack

xpost - draft - Thank you Microsoft Teams for being a great, reliable, feature-full cloud chat / communication platform.

1. I'm wondering, on Android, when we want to send a voice memo/voice message, could you give us an option to just press the mic button once to record instead of having to hold it down while we record? I think when I tried it on iOS a couple days ago, it allowed me to do that. Just wondering if you might/could bring that functionality to the android app. Thank you.

a couple other ideas while I'm at it:

2. Maybe transcriptions of voice messages?

3. Maybe a little video button where we could hold it down / give it a tap to record a short video memo, similar to the voice message but with video included. I know we could record a video with our phone and then send it as a video/file, but I wonder if it might be cool to have this built in function as well.

#microsoftteams
#ideas
#idea
#microsoftteamsideas
#microsoft
#cloudchat
#livingdoc
#livingdocument
#voicememos
#voicemessages

#Blind and #PartiallySighted people on Mastodon and the Fediverse use special apps called “screen readers” that read text out loud, so they can tell what is on the screen.

There are many things that #sighted people can do to make their posts more accessible to people using #Screen Readers.

It is all fine. And also there are #SpeechToText apps, allowing people dictate their posts. But wouldn't it be nice to have a #VoiceMessages available as well? In a way similar to instant communicators? It could work as a #ServerSide #plugin or in a client. Perhaps somebody is already working on it?
How do I make posts more accessible to blind people on Mastodon and the Fediverse? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

Google chat - "It's been a busy last few months for Google Chat, starting with a redesigned logo in December, while the mobile apps have undergone a few design changes in the past couple of months. The Chat app is also developing features like voice messages, which are already a staple of most messaging apps. We can now add another common messaging feature to the list, with Google announcing the inclusion of participant avatars for unread group chats (spaces)."

https://www.androidpolice.com/google-chat-participant-avatar-unread-threads-spaces/

Related

#googlechat
#voicemessages
#slack
#teams

»#Clubhouse’s new feature turns your #texts into custom #voicemessages.« https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/16/clubhouses-new-feature-turns-your-texts-into-custom-voice-messages/?eicker.news #tech #media

So #VoiceMessages/#VoiceNotes are a thing?

I always thought they were like an unconstrained #voicemail and therefore to be avoided, but apparently I’m just old…

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/01/against-voice-notes/676951/

Privacy
Secure, contained, unseen
WhatsApp's voice messages
Gone as soon as they're heard
Protected.

#whatsapp #privacy #voicemessages #cinquain #poetry

https://www.engadget.com/whatsapp-adds-disappearing-voice-messages-to-its-roster-of-privacy-features-172813331.html

the #voicemessages in #ios17 are now automatically transcribed. thats an awesome boomer feature. i h8 voice messages!! ;) <3 thank you, #apple

NEW VIDEO:

Apple Made Voice Messages So Much Better in iOS17
https://youtu.be/5W6BK8_MCWo

Please boost 😊
#apple #iMessage #VoiceMessages #iOS17

@haikubot

Breaking this down as a comparison of fads or as something that is more or less trendy seems to me to miss key points.

Some situations, like making a purchase decision at a physical store, require in-the-moment communication. Comforting a friend who's having a hard time is better done by showing them they have your attention. Real-time discussion is often best there.

The article briefly touches on such scenarios but then snaps back to this as a trend matter, not a best tool for need matter. If you're sick with a cold you go to your regular doctor, but if you have a heart attack you go to a cardiologist. It would be ludicrous to have an article counting visits and concluding cardiologists are out of vogue or not popular. But this article reads that way to me.

Real-time discussion locks a person to a single activity. The need for that, for synchronous conversation, is less common so it's good there are ever more ways to do asynchronous communication, where the other party will read/hear eventually, and may subsequently respond eventually, but it seems to me outright wrong to describe real-time communication as out of vogue or not as popular.

Unnecessary intrusion was never popular. It's just that in the presence of bad tools it had to be tolerated more. But not all real-time conversation is intrusion. And not all audio or visual info has to be interactive/synchronous/real-time. Now we can factor things better.

Mechanisms like text or voice messaging or audio or video calls favor certain communicational needs at the expense of others. A compromise? Sort of. But it would be wrong to talk about oil paint vs watercolor or TV series vs song vs reading a book as always better or always worse. They're just different.

Instead of using the terminology of trend or popularity analysis, instead of counting Likes or watching stock value, it would be more helpful to identify a matrix or decision graph that associates situational needs with tech that will be respectful of participants needs for content privacy, for managing noise, to avoid being interrupted or to get timely info, to hide or convey emotions like fear or anger or doubt, to avoid detailing unnecessary information, to promote active and timely compromise, to manage many participants, to make it easy to refer back later or easy to have an ephemeral non-binding interaction, to deal with text or audio or video or mixed data...

Instead of having a preferred one-size-fits-all modality, understanding that each mode has characteristics that work for some needs and not others is good. Learning to ask, "for this need, which should I/we use?" would, in my view, be a better way to embrace new tech. These technologies need to collaborate, not compete.

#text #'voice #VoiceMessages #phone #phones #sms #social #SocialMedia #communication #tech #technology #WhatsApp #Messenger #Slack #UX #UI

@rooster using #iMessage or any #SingleVendor / #SingleProvider system - espechally #VoiceMessages within these - is something only #TechIlliterates and #Snitches do.

So don't trust anyone using these at all!