Apple Watch allows you to send messages by dictating voice (which gets transferred into text on watch), but this can create confusion in the minds of receivers if you can’t pronounce the contents properly. There is another way you can send messages. On your Apple Watch, you can send voice messages. This information deals with how you can send voice messages from Apple Watch.
Before the launch of watchOS 3, users had to answer a question from Messages app, which would ask you if you wished to send a text transcript or a voice recording.
But to make the interaction faster, Apple changed this feature in its watchOS 3. Since more people like to use voice to text option, you can always change the option or continue to send voice messages from Apple Watch.
How to Send Voice Messages from Apple Watch
Though you have to send voice messages using Apple Watch, your connected iPhone will play a role here.
Step #1: Hold your iPhone in your hands and open the Watch app on it.
Step #2: Next, tap on My Watch tab from the bottom menu.
Step #3: Now scroll down to Messages section.
Step #4: Tap on Messages to reveal a few options, where you find an option of Dictated Messages.
Step #5: Tap on Dictated Messages and choose ‘Audio’ or ‘Transcript or Audio’.
Here Apple will depict the default option on watchOS 3:
By default, when you’re done dictating a message, Apple Watch sends a written transcript of what you said. You can change this setting to send an audio clip instead, or to choose which option you want every time you dictate a message.
You should choose the option to send ‘Transcript or Audio’.
Users love to send voice to text messages but as mentioned above, there can be a goof, which creates confusion in communication. Hence, it is advisable to use voice messages on Apple Watch, which gives you an experience of walkie-talkie. This is a quick way to send voice messages, which are more personal than formal.
After selecting your choice of option, you can try this out on Messages app for Apple Watch. check out the microphone button while replying to the new message and then speak. The recipient can playback the audio on iMessage from Messages for Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac and send reply with text or voice.
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