Hallelujah, I've found a FOSS transcription app that allows offline, on-device transcription of pre-recorded audio files, e. g. downloaded Signal voice messages.

Fair warning: It uses OpenAI's machine learning model "Whisper", which runs locally, but was most likely not trained ethically by OpenAI. But least it's being put to good use as a valuable accessibility tool. 🙏

"Notely Voice" by Tosin Onikute is available for Android and iOS and even on F-Droid:

🌐 https://notelyvoice.com

#VoiceMessages #Transcription #FOSS #Signal

WhatsApp finally arrives on Apple Watch and it’s surprisingly capable

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2025/11/whatsapp-apple-watch/

VORKON ra mắt: Nền tảng thu thập tin nhắn thoại, đánh giá & micro-podcast! 🎙️ Phân tích AI mạnh mẽ, tích hợp dễ dàng. Tuyệt vời cho phản hồi từ khách hàng, học viên. Đăng ký dùng thử miễn phí ngay!
#VORKON #voicemessages #micropodcast #AI #platform #Vietnamese #tinnhanthoai #phanhoi #congcu

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1n389i5/launching_vorkon_a_powerful_platform_for/

BBC: Grandmother gets X-rated message after Apple AI fail. “Louise Littlejohn, 66, received a voicemail message on Wednesday from a Lookers Land Rover garage in Motherwell inviting her to an event. An artificial intelligence (AI) powered service offered by Apple turned it into a text message which – to her surprise – asked if she been ‘able to have sex’ before calling her a ‘piece of ****’.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/09/bbc-grandmother-gets-x-rated-message-after-apple-ai-fail/

How to #flash and use a #lora #heltecv3 #rnode and #reticulum using #reticulummeshchat on #linux #linuxmint to send #textmessages and #voicemessages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNtQsykD0NA

The video is long but does show you how to do it and what to avoid. Highly recommended.

#chromium #DeviceFlasher

#meshtastic - like device and software BTW

WhatsApp is enhancing user experience with voice message transcripts, making audio notes accessible anytime, while ensuring privacy by generating transcripts directly on your phone.

#WhatsAppUpdates #VoiceMessages https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/whatsapp-rolls-out-voice-note-transcripts/733652/

Microsoft, thank you for Microsoft teams. For sending voice messages, can we get an option to let us tap once to record instead of holding down the button, which is in the corner of the screen so its pretty finicky and won't let me hold it down for some reason. if you need to make it 30 seconds max, that's fine, just let us press once to record please. Thank you.

#microsoftteams
#msteams
#family
#friends
#communication
#voicemessage
#voicemessages

draft - voice messages for google chat -

"To send a voice message in Google Chat, users must first tap the microphone icon and begin recording. Unlike other apps, users are not forced to hold down the microphone..."

this is the way. the requirement to hold down the mic button on screen is weird / unapproachable especially for some users. so the ability to just tap once to record makes more sense.

please can we have the option for all free users? thank you.

https://www.news18.com/tech/google-chat-introduces-voice-message-feature-for-select-users-how-it-works-8831044.html

related -
#googlechat
#family
#friends
#communication
#voicemessages
#cloudchat
#multipledevices
#multidevice
#backedupbydefault
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semi-related -
#microsoftteams
#slack
#microsoftteamsalternatives
#slackalternatives

draft - Microsoft thank you for Microsoft teams. Can you improve the snappiness of the chat function? It's already best in class feature wise. One thing, with voice messages, maybe after we long press to record, maybe it should stay recording until we tap the button again so that we don't have to hold it down manually.

#microsoftteamschat
#microsoftteams
#ideasformicrosoftteams
#teamschat
#family
#friends
#communication
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#googlechat
#slack
#voicemessages