<p>Last week, <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/technology/whatsapp-gets-new-video-calling-features-max-participants-increased-for-windows-and-mac-users-3066650">WhatsApp</a> introduced several new features including raising the limit on the number of participants in video calls to 32 on Windows and Mac PCs, speaker spotlight, and more.</p><p>Now, the Meta-owned company is testing a value-added feature that would allow users to transcribe voice messages soon, <a href="https://wabetainfo.com/whatsapp-beta-for-android-2-24-13-8-whats-new/">reported</a> WABetaInfo, citing the latest WhatsApp Android Beta (v2.24.7.8) rolled out to developers.</p><p>As the screengrab below shows, WhatsApp will initially support five languages--English, Spanish, French, Russian, and Hindi.</p>.WhatsApp gets refreshed visual user interface, new features.<p>This will improve user experience on the messenger app. It will come in handy when receivers are in an important meeting or at a public place and don't want to play voice messages via the phone's loudspeaker. With the transcribe feature, they can read the voice message in multiple languages.</p>.<p>The new feature is still being tested. WhatsApp is likely to take a few weeks or months to perfect the feature and ensure there are no bugs in it. Also, there is a possibility of WhatsApp adding support for more languages in the future.</p><p>In a related development, WhatsApp is testing multiple other features including chat lock in linked devices and an Artificial Intelligence (AI) photo generation tool.</p><p>Currently, the chat lock feature works only on the primary device. If the person owns a secondary phone with the same WhatsApp account, there is no provision to lock private chat sessions.</p><p>WhatsApp will soon bring the chat lock feature to all linked (maximum of four) devices.</p>.<p>Add to that, WhatsApp is also working on an AI-powered tool that can help users create their animated profile photo with just text description.</p>.WhatsApp testing gen AI tool to create personalised profile photo.<p>WhatsApp will offer a new tab--Create AI Profile Photo-- in the Profile Photo section at the top in Settings. There, users can describe themselves through text inputs. Based on this, it will be able to generate a human face with facial attributes such as skin tone, eyebrows, nose, lips, ears and hairstyle too.</p>.<p><em>Get the latest news on new launches, gadget reviews, apps, cybersecurity, and more on personal technology only on <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/dh-tech?_ga=2.210580691.73733284.1595225125-1706599323.1592232366">DH Tech</a>.</em></p>
<p>Last week, <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/technology/whatsapp-gets-new-video-calling-features-max-participants-increased-for-windows-and-mac-users-3066650">WhatsApp</a> introduced several new features including raising the limit on the number of participants in video calls to 32 on Windows and Mac PCs, speaker spotlight, and more.</p><p>Now, the Meta-owned company is testing a value-added feature that would allow users to transcribe voice messages soon, <a href="https://wabetainfo.com/whatsapp-beta-for-android-2-24-13-8-whats-new/">reported</a> WABetaInfo, citing the latest WhatsApp Android Beta (v2.24.7.8) rolled out to developers.</p><p>As the screengrab below shows, WhatsApp will initially support five languages--English, Spanish, French, Russian, and Hindi.</p>.WhatsApp gets refreshed visual user interface, new features.<p>This will improve user experience on the messenger app. It will come in handy when receivers are in an important meeting or at a public place and don't want to play voice messages via the phone's loudspeaker. With the transcribe feature, they can read the voice message in multiple languages.</p>.<p>The new feature is still being tested. WhatsApp is likely to take a few weeks or months to perfect the feature and ensure there are no bugs in it. Also, there is a possibility of WhatsApp adding support for more languages in the future.</p><p>In a related development, WhatsApp is testing multiple other features including chat lock in linked devices and an Artificial Intelligence (AI) photo generation tool.</p><p>Currently, the chat lock feature works only on the primary device. If the person owns a secondary phone with the same WhatsApp account, there is no provision to lock private chat sessions.</p><p>WhatsApp will soon bring the chat lock feature to all linked (maximum of four) devices.</p>.<p>Add to that, WhatsApp is also working on an AI-powered tool that can help users create their animated profile photo with just text description.</p>.WhatsApp testing gen AI tool to create personalised profile photo.<p>WhatsApp will offer a new tab--Create AI Profile Photo-- in the Profile Photo section at the top in Settings. There, users can describe themselves through text inputs. Based on this, it will be able to generate a human face with facial attributes such as skin tone, eyebrows, nose, lips, ears and hairstyle too.</p>.<p><em>Get the latest news on new launches, gadget reviews, apps, cybersecurity, and more on personal technology only on <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/dh-tech?_ga=2.210580691.73733284.1595225125-1706599323.1592232366">DH Tech</a>.</em></p>
