Big update: images, PDFs and voice replies in your contact's language
We studied how people use the bot and shipped our largest update since launch. WhatApp? now reads screenshots and documents, voices your reply in your contact's language and speaks three more languages used by much of the workforce in the UAE.
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Reads images and screenshots
Send a photo of a sign, menu or document, or a chat screenshot. The bot finds the text and translates it. If there is no text, it briefly describes the picture.
Translates PDFs
Contracts, invoices, letters: the bot extracts the text, translates it and starts with a short summary so you don't read ten pages for one paragraph.
Replies by voice in their language
Dictate your reply in your language and get a ready voice note in English, Arabic, Hindi or another language, ready to forward. Typed replies get a “Voice” button.
Hindi, Urdu and Tagalog
Now in the language menu, so drivers, nannies, technicians and couriers can use the bot themselves and read translations in their own language.
Recordings up to two hours
Meetings, lectures and long videos no longer need to be cut into pieces: the bot compresses the file and transcribes all of it, with a summary first.
More accurate, easier to use
Context-aware translation
The bot looks at earlier messages of the same conversation, so names and terms stay consistent and idioms read naturally.
Double-checks unclear recordings
Noise, music or a bad line used to confuse recognition. Now the bot spots such recordings, re-checks them with a second model and says so in the reply.
Replies quote the original
Forwarded five messages at once? Each translation arrives as a reply to its own message.
No more echo
A voice note in your own language is simply transcribed. Text in your language gets a one-tap offer to translate it for your contact.
Better with mixed speech
Speech that mixes languages, like Russian with English business terms, is recognized correctly.
Reliability and privacy
Backup models
If a recognition or translation service is down, the bot switches to a backup automatically, and checks every hour that translation works.
Passwords and card numbers are hidden
If you forward a password or card number by mistake, the service log keeps it masked. Still, please don't send such data to the bot.
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