Foreign media TheSpAndroid recently discovered that the Google Chat service, which is promoted through the built-in Gmail, has begun to have a new feature that can use the microphone to send voice messages. Continue reading the text of the report that Google Chat, which is built into Gmail, has begun to introduce voice messaging capabilities.
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Gmail’s built-in support for Google Chat begins to introduce voice messaging capabilities
Although because of Google’s “willful” or “unprofessional” attitude towards messaging applications, the editor has not used the messaging applications that Google has prepared for the majority of users since Hangouts. However, Google Chat, which has recently been built into Gmail, has brought quite convenient new messaging support. Maybe it will attract everyone to start with this built-in feature and choose to use their latest messaging service.
Foreign media TheSpAndroid recently discovered that the Google Chat service, which is promoted through the built-in Gmail, has begun to have a new feature that can use the microphone to send voice messages.
According to reports, this feature was actually mentioned in the previous Google Cloud Next conference. But it’s only now that we’ve begun to see people’s Gmail/Google Chat services providing such functionality.
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At present, this feature should still be in the state of testing with a small number of users. Even when foreign media initially tried this function, they discovered that the voice function of Google Chat would be displayed as transmitting an m4a file at the beginning – although it is probably understandable that the bottom layer of this service is probably just to transfer voice files to each other, but it is quite wonderful to display it so directly (XD). Fortunately, Google Chat has fixed this situation during subsequent use.
At this stage, we are not sure exactly how long the voice messages this feature can support, or when exactly it will be officially launched. However, TheSpAndroid believes that since this feature seems to be still in the preliminary testing stage, it is expected that it will not be officially launched until at least the first quarter of this year.
In addition to built-in Google Chat, which allows you to send messages more instantly, Gmail has also begun to provide more interesting emoticon reactions for messages in the app. You can touch and hold an emoji to see who reacted, and you can delete the emoji within a customizable 5 to 30 seconds after the reaction. If you want to delete the emoji reaction, you can click Cancel in the notification that appears at the bottom, but the time limit for canceling transmission can only be changed from your computer.
But if the person you send an emoji reaction to does not have a Gmail account, it is understood that you may receive an email containing the link “[name] reacts through Gmail” – a bit like when services such as iMessage encounter “off-net” users.
I have to say that Gmail’s functions are really getting richer and richer.
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