WhatsApp updated voice messages

WhatsApp has announced a number of changes to voice messaging that will make using the service more convenient (and more similar to Telegram).

There will be six innovations in total:

• Continue listening after leaving the chat - a feature that has been around for several weeks being tested on the iPhone. Allows you to view messages from other users while listening to a particularly long voice.
• Pause recording - so that you don't have to reset the recording if you are distracted or need to collect your thoughts.
• Visualization of speech - at a glance it will be clear where the pauses are.
• Pre-listening - to check whether everything was recorded correctly, even before sending.
• Pause playback - the application remembers at what second you paused listening, so that later you can continue from the same place.
• Fast playback - now 1.5x or 2x acceleration will be available for voices recorded for you personally, as well as for those that were sent to you from other users.

All of these features will gradually roll out to iOS and Android users in the coming weeks.