From time to time WhatsApp updates its application with more or less interesting news. Today’s just arrived and it’s ready for everyone, but you’ve probably never missed it or ordered it. WhatsApp has just updated its voice memos to look a little different, just as useful, and a little more sophisticated. It is an easy change to understand, but it contributes rather little. It’s prettier and has a bit more work behind it, but doesn’t add to the level of usability in voice memos in our opinion.
Voice notes with sound waves in WhatsApp
Since a couple of days users are receiving a minor update on the server side. The OTA is received automatically and it is not necessary to update the app from Google Play. One of the most important aesthetic changes is the new way of viewing WhatsApp voice notes .
Now when you receive -or send- a voice memo you will no longer see a flat time bar. This has changed and now a series of vertical bars are displayed that try to imitate sound waves. It’s not really the waves, but the representation of a sonogram or sonogram indicating the duration of certain notes .
The reality is that each voice note now allows you to see this small graph in which the silences or moments in which you speak with a very low volume are represented. It’s cool, but it’s useless.
That is, if you receive a voice note, it is normal to listen to it and now, you do not need to know when the person is silent . Also, there is also no information on what is a high or low volume.
It is very difficult to know if the person is shouting, whispering or talking normally. The only function you have is to see when nothing is said. That as we repeat, this seems to us very little useful.
It is simply an aesthetic update that “improves” the application interface and that you will begin to find in the coming days, if you have not already done so. What do you think of this WhatsApp news ?
