How to enable WhatsApp voice message recording

To understand the voice messages sent by the other party in WhatsApp messages, users can enable the voice message transcription feature. WhatsApp voice message transcription feature has now been rolled out to all accounts, on Android and iOS. All the content in WhatsApp voice messages is converted to text. Here is a guide to enable WhatsApp voice message transcription.

How to enable WhatsApp voice message recording

Step 1:

On the WhatsApp interface, click on Settings below. The new interface appears, click on Chat to adjust.

Step 2:

In the interface as shown, users need to enable Voice Message Transcription to use. Switch to the feature introduction interface, click Select language below.

Step 3:

Users will see a list of languages ​​that WhatsApp supports for voice message recording. Tap the language you want to use. Confirm the language you choose to use for voice message recording.

So you have enabled voice message recording on WhatsApp.

How to view WhatsApp voice message transcripts

Step 1:

In the conversation you receive a voice message, we press and hold on the voice message and select Transcribe in the displayed menu.

Step 2:

Then you wait for WhatsApp to read the voice message and convert it to text for you to follow.

On iOS, before using WhatsApp's voice message recording feature, you need to make sure Siri is enabled.

Micah Soto

Update 26 May 2025