WhatsApp announced on Wednesday that it will roll out some improvements to voice messages over the coming weeks, including the ability to listen to a message while reading other chats and play messages at 1.5 or 2 times speed (yes, please, put this feature everywhere).

The experience of recording messages is also improving. WhatsApp now lets you pause and resume your recording, so you donโ€™t have to leave large gaps of silence if youโ€™re thinking of what to say next or redo a recording if you need to have a brief conversation in real life. Youโ€™ll also be able to listen to a message before you send it to make sure you didnโ€™t accidentally get cut off or include something you didnโ€™t want to.

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An example of what the new voice chat UI looks like.๏ปฟ

Thereโ€™s also a slight aesthetic improvement. Instead of just using a line to show your voice message playback progress, WhatsApp will now use a waveform of the actual message. Plus, WhatsApp can remember where you were when you paused playback and let you start playing back from that point again so you donโ€™t have to re-listen to an entire message.

These improvements will likely get a lot of use โ€” WhatsApp says that users send an average of 7 billion voice chats a day. While some similar features were already available in other apps (Telegram, for example, has let you listen to messages outside chats for a while), itโ€™s definitely nice to see WhatsAppโ€™s version getting some attention.

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