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The WhatsApp voice message is very common in Spain. I always find it jarring when I'm there, mostly because I'm not used to it, but also because it seems to def
by biztos 2mo ago
The WhatsApp voice message is very common in Spain. I always find it jarring when I'm there, mostly because I'm not used to it, but also because it seems to defeat the purpose of the messaging app: I can't listen to your voice message on the bus, for instance.
It's so normalized there that I wonder whether this is a particularly Spanish habit. Maybe there are a bunch of countries where people routinely leave each other voice recordings on WhatsApp/Messenger/etc, and I just haven't been to them yet.
- lobsterthief 2mo agoSame here in Uruguay but only for certain interactions (like contractors). Thankfully there’s a transcription feature that catches 90% of the message generally.
- dummydummy1234 2mo agoWas just in south America, everyone uses it.
- winstonp 2mo agoIt's a habit in specific countries, China is one in my experience.
- prepend 2mo agoIt’s funny to me how I judge some cultural aspects as being worse. Of course it’s my own cultural bias, but I think the following things are “bad” for cultures to do: 1) long voice memos over succinctly typed notes 2) not forming lines/queues and just mobbing the train/shop/etc 3) habitually late or not on time
- account42 2mo ago> 2) not forming lines/queues and just mobbing the train/shop/etc Also even queueing can have different norms. Here people rush to a newly opened supermarket checkout like their life depended on it. I feel that should be a lot less sociably acceptable than it is, especially for those with overfilled carts that will add huge delays for anyone behind them.
- kspacewalk2 2mo agoMaybe it's a cultural thing in the Spanish speaking world? Had the same experience in Colombia.
- whstl 2mo agoI used to answer this with "I'm not listening to that, not even my parents send me voice messages" but it was called uncivil by some people, so now I just say "I can't listen to that right now" and never listen, eventually ppl send a text message.
- sbene970 2mo agoModern problems require modern solutions.
- rpdillon 1mo agoYeah, the perceived friction in a voice message seems to be immense. I sent one voice massage in the past year because I wanted to get a big idea over to someone as I was walking into a meeting, so I recorded a 20-second message and sent it. She ended up responding 9 hours later with "I finally got around to listening to this, thanks!" Won't be doing that again!
- strenholme 2mo agoThe way I handle those, especially with the people who leave me 8 minute long voice notes, is to have WhatsApp transcribe the voice note for me. Or, if that’s not possible, either ignore the voice note or listen to it at 2x speed.
- biztos 2mo agoI was surprised WhatsApp didn't give me a "transcribe" button (as recently as yesterday). Seems like it'd be pretty easy to implement that.
- strenholme 2mo agoI don’t have a transcribe button in the Windows app, but my Android phone has a transcribe button.
- blensor 2mo agoI can't understand why whatsapp does not provide tgat out of the box. Telegram has it on the paid plan, which is nit ideal but at least somewhat out of the box solution.
- account42 2mo agoNo thanks. If the sender wants to avoid typing then he should use the transcribe function and take responsibility for any errors in it.
- straw_hat_build 1mo ago[dead]
- tayo42 2mo agoAre the messages in Spanish or English?
- biztos 2mo agoBoth: English messages sent to me, and I also see my friends do it in Spanish for messages sent to other people.