WhatsApp announced on Wednesday that it’ll roll out some enhancements to voice messages over the approaching weeks, together with the flexibility to take heed to a message whereas studying different chats and play messages at 1.5 or 2 occasions pace (sure, please, put this characteristic in every single place).

The expertise of recording messages can be enhancing. WhatsApp now permits you to pause and resume your recording, so that you don’t have to depart massive gaps of silence if you happen to’re pondering of what to say subsequent or redo a recording if that you must have a quick dialog in actual life. You’ll additionally be capable to take heed to a message earlier than you ship it to be sure you didn’t by accident get reduce off or embrace one thing you didn’t wish to.

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There’s additionally a slight aesthetic enchancment. Instead of simply utilizing a line to point out your voice message playback progress, WhatsApp will now use a waveform of the particular message. Plus, WhatsApp can keep in mind the place you have been while you paused playback and allow you to begin taking part in again from that time once more so that you don’t need to re-listen to a complete message.

These enhancements will seemingly get quite a lot of use — WhatsApp says that customers ship a median of seven billion voice chats a day. While some comparable options have been already out there in different apps (Telegram, for instance, has allow you to take heed to messages exterior chats for some time), it’s undoubtedly good to see WhatsApp’s model getting some consideration.