How To Upload A Voice Recording To Whatsapp

I discovered yesterday that y'all can send an audio message through WhatsApp, I recall it's probably always been possible just I merely just noticed. You lot tin can also salve a copy separately (by emailing it to yourself), and I thought I'd write up how to relieve / email phonation memos from iPhone too, so I added that at the end.

This mail service was prompted by thinking about Andy Mabbett'due south (@pigsonthewing) post nigh the Wiki Vocalism Intro Project (#wikivip), while noticing that audio messages could be shared via WhatsApp. WikiVIP is about inviting people who take a Wikipedia page almost them to record and share a curt audio introduction ("Hi I'm Ten and have been doing Y since Z", sort of thing), you can meet an instance on Ralph Fiennes' Wikipedia folio.

ane. Here's a redacted WhatsApp voice recording (you tin make new ones by clicking on the remarkably obvious blue microphone icon at the lesser of the screen which I only spotted yesterday). If you press and hold anywhere within the stake green box you'll bring upwardly the options window

two. "Forrard" is the option you lot're after, to electronic mail it etc

3. And so it's the upload icon (lesser correct in the picture below) and cull email option as before, the file is in an .opus format – I've never handled those earlier but there are file conversion tools [Zamzar – file converter (no download required)]

iPhone voice memo app

This lets you record audio for every bit long every bit yous have enough space on your phone to accommodate it. I've recorded several things longer than an hour, though I tend to separate them up. Obviously longer recordings are bigger files than shorter ones but you can email whatever file to yourself [and it might be simpler to use a USB connection and iTunes for the actually large ones – iPhone: Transfer Voice Memos from iPhone to Computer] by doing the following.

one. Choose the vocalization memo you want to share, click on it in the listing to bring up the play, upload, edit and delete icons

2. Click on the upload icon which brings up the ways to share, and then cull the email option

3. The file is an .m4a format (if recorded with an iPhone) just yous can use software tools to convert to other formats [NCH Switch MP3 Converter software (download required)] [Zamzar – file converter (no download required)]