IntelliTechs ยท Oct 09, 2026
You can read a long voice note quietly on the bus or in a meeting instead of playing it out loud. Transcripts are generated on your phone and can get words wrong, so for anything important, listen to the message too.
It's a feature that converts a voice message you received into written text inside the chat.
WhatsApp says transcripts are generated on your device. According to the company, that means no one else, including WhatsApp, can hear or read the messages.
The path, Settings, then Chats, then Voice message transcripts, comes straight from WhatsApp's own announcement.
There's no Siri-style requirement on Android. BGR notes the steps otherwise work the same on both systems.
The list depends on your system. This table shows what was announced at launch, per BGR and GSMArena.
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