Voice messages on Instagram can be heard outside of conversations and at a higher speed

May 19. (Portaltic/EP) –

instagram prepare new features for voice messages that are sent through direct messages (DM), which will soon be able to be heard outside of the conversation in which they were received or from which they were sent, in addition to being able to do so by changing the speed of reproduction.

The tab dedicated to direct messages allows users to send messages, photos and videos to other contacts, either from Instagram or from Facebook, with effects and text included. Likewise, you can send publications and make video calls.

When voice messages are sent, Instagram allows a single listening speed, unlike WhatsApp -also owned by Meta-, which offers the possibility of doing so at different speeds: normal (1x), slightly faster (1.5x) and twice the normal speed (2x).

WhatsApp also allows you to navigate within the application while listening to audio, so it does not force the user to stay within the conversation in which it has been received in order to see other chats or modify other settings of the platform while playing the voice memo.

Meta is now working on these two features to bring them to Instagram, which will be prepare to enter them in your inbox, according to has been able to verify reverse engineering expert Alessandro Paluzzi.

This has verified that the social network allows you to play voice notes at speeds of 1.5x and 2x and that, when leaving the conversation in which this file is present, its playback is not interrupted, but rather continues listening, placing said voice note. voice in the top of the interfacejust like WhatsApp.

Also as in this other communication platform, Instagram integrates a button to continue or pause voice notesas well as a cross to discard its reproduction, with the difference that Instagram Enter the second hand for voice memos.