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100% agree, personally I just prefer typing but seems like I am not in the majority. I very often receive audio replies to my typed messages and it’s very frustrating. 70% of the time, I’m not in a position where I can easily listen to the audio vs just reading text. The other 30% of the time I’m simply annoyed as I do not want to be forced to listen to the audio.

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I don't even need a TTS feature, just let me mark my chat as only-text please. People that send audios tend to consume more of my time than people who write because they are making up their mind as they speak.

They seem to think: why waste my time putting my thoughts into words when I can waste everyone else's time while I figure out my ideas?

I'd like to add to this that the transcription doesn't even need to be 100% accurate to be useful. It'll mostly be used to get the gist of what was said and target more specifically which audio message requires to be re-listened to instead of having to listen to everything again.

You just described the Google Voice voicemail experience

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