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Voice to Text transcription is worth it in itself. I hate when people send me voice messages: it's slightly less effort for them in exchange for much more annoy

Voice to Text transcription is worth it in itself. I hate when people send me voice messages: it's slightly less effort for them in exchange for much more annoyance and wasted time for me.

baisq 4y ago
There are bots like @transcriber_bot that fix this.
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mgbmtl 4y ago
My VoIP provider offers this (voip.ms) and I love it. I rarely listen to voicemail anymore (not that I get many, but say, some voicemail from kids school, or a client who didn't get the memo not to call me). And less errors because I'm always distracted when listening to voicemail (what a waste of time).
henriquecm8 4y ago
I wish whatsapp had this feature, some clients seem to only send audio messages, it's terrible when I want to get some information, then I have to check a few audio to find what I want, instead of searching for a keyword.
cabirum 4y ago
Or: an option to turn off support for audio messages. Disabling the send audio message button.
- slig 4y ago
  I believe everyone would disable (even those who insist in sending voice messages) and the feature would die.
  - cabirum 4y ago
    If a (mis)feature gets disabled by many users, it gets removed from the app. With time, apps accumulate features and get bloated. This actually is a mechanism to allow cleaning up features users so not want.
    - slig 4y ago
      That'd be great, but I'm sure there are some "metrics" that would not benefit from disabling the audio feature.
machiaweliczny 4y ago
Is this text-transcription working offline? Or it's sending everything to the servers?
raybb 4y ago
I remember for a brief moment when facebook messenger had this feature. It was awesome! IIRC they took it away because it turned out they had some humans listening to some of the messages to help with transcription and that got them some bad press.
brnt 4y ago
I apparently exist in a parallel universe: never received any. My partner does sometimes, it's really befuddling why anyone would do that. I suppose they can't dictate messages.

Voice to Text transcription is worth it in itself. I hate when people send me voice messages: it's slightly less effort for them in exchange for much more annoyance and wasted time for me.

baisq 4y ago

There are bots like @transcriber_bot that fix this.

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mgbmtl 4y ago

My VoIP provider offers this (voip.ms) and I love it. I rarely listen to voicemail anymore (not that I get many, but say, some voicemail from kids school, or a client who didn't get the memo not to call me). And less errors because I'm always distracted when listening to voicemail (what a waste of time).

henriquecm8 4y ago

I wish whatsapp had this feature, some clients seem to only send audio messages, it's terrible when I want to get some information, then I have to check a few audio to find what I want, instead of searching for a keyword.

cabirum 4y ago

Or: an option to turn off support for audio messages. Disabling the send audio message button.

slig 4y ago
I believe everyone would disable (even those who insist in sending voice messages) and the feature would die.
- cabirum 4y ago
  If a (mis)feature gets disabled by many users, it gets removed from the app. With time, apps accumulate features and get bloated. This actually is a mechanism to allow cleaning up features users so not want.
  - slig 4y ago
    That'd be great, but I'm sure there are some "metrics" that would not benefit from disabling the audio feature.

machiaweliczny 4y ago

Is this text-transcription working offline? Or it's sending everything to the servers?

raybb 4y ago

I remember for a brief moment when facebook messenger had this feature. It was awesome! IIRC they took it away because it turned out they had some humans listening to some of the messages to help with transcription and that got them some bad press.

brnt 4y ago

I apparently exist in a parallel universe: never received any. My partner does sometimes, it's really befuddling why anyone would do that. I suppose they can't dictate messages.