Facebook Messenger: it tests a voice transcription functionality

The Facebook Messenger standalone application is an important part of the offer of the company, since 500 million Messenger users send billions of messages every day. The social giant has been considerable focus on the stickers lately, releasing an application dedicated solely to add stickers to your photos.

However, today it seems that Facebook will bring a new change in his famous mail application. The company plans to add a new voice transcription feature for Facebook Messenger . Announced by David Marcus, head of the team of Facebook Messenger This feature allows users of the Facebook Messenger app to read voicemail transcripts instead of listen.


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In other words, when you send or receive a voice message, you will see a text preview of the message . The sender and receiver can see the text, unless you decide to turn it off.

If you're a Google Voice user, you are probably already familiar with this type of functionality. You will also be familiar with its shortcomings, such as the fact that the transcribed messages could end up being distorted. We'll have to wait and see if Facebook can do better with its own platform.

Unfortunately, most of us do not see the feature so soon. Marcus wrote that the firm "begins to deploy a small test that will help people to read voice clips they receive instead of having to listen. Our idea is to test this functionality on a small scale for now, and we look forward to see what you think before the experience is more widely available " .

The transcript will be automatic, and it is hoped that it will become more widely available feature in the future.
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