WhatsApp, the world’s most widely used instant messaging platform, could add a third blue check mark to its messages. The first indicates that a chat was sent, the second received and when they turn blue it means they were read. What would the third indicate? A screenshot.
In this way, the person who sends a message, a photo or a video, will be able to know that the recipient, both in an individual or group chat, made a capture what is seen on the screen.
For now this is a leak, and at the time of publishing this note from iProfessional there was no official confirmation of Metathe parent company of WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram, about this feature that would seek to protect the privacy of conversations.
According to the leaks, this third tilde will also work in the group chats. If one of the group members takes a screenshot of a conversation, everyone in the chat will be notified.
The tildes in the messages, and the clock which means that the content has not yet left the cell phone, each one has a meaning. The first, only one, indicates that a message was sent but the receiver has not yet received it.
The second, the double tilde -also grey- means that the message was sent and received by the user. The double blue tilde indicates that the message was sent, received, and read by the recipient.
WhatsApp is the world’s most popular instant messaging application.
The new blue triple tilde would mark that a user took a screenshot of the chat, something that other applications also indicate. In InstagramFor example, a mark can be seen when a person captures a photo that was sent to view only once.
WhatsApp: function created by Argentines passes audio to text
Argentine engineers developed a new tool that converts audio messages from WhatsApp in text. This is TranscribeMe, a bot that allows you to record sound files and convert them into text quickly and easily.
TranscribeMe, Developed by the company Rather Labs, it was created by two Argentine engineers: Jimena López Morillo, mechanical engineer and master’s degree in robotics, and Ignacio Fabré, nuclear engineer.
Like other WhatsApp bots, such as the Buenos Aires Government Boti, you have to add the number +54 9 11 5349-5987 to the mobile phone contacts to start a conversation. When saving it, a name must be chosen. Once these steps are done, the user must resend the audio they want to transcribe.
Once the audio is forwarded, the bot will say “Transcribing…” and in a few seconds it will return the audio as text. detect the words correctly, as well as pauses, punctuation and questions.
Also, if the audio is longer than a minute, provide a summary of the audio in addition to the full transcription, with the main ideas. Jimena Lopez Morillo and Ignacio Fabré began developing it in February and it was made public in March. “We consider that it is a useful tool for people,” the 28-year-old engineer told the digital outlet Salta/12. “That’s where they send you a 10 minute audio(the bot) captures the main ideas and gives you a summary of it.”
What about the privacy of messages?
From Rather Labs they highlighted that the bot protects the privacy of userswhich is often the biggest concern when sharing personal information with tools that use artificial intelligence and have a human creator behind it.
“We simply process the audios, they remain in the people’s chat record. We we have no record of the audio contents“, assured the creators.
In any case, since it is an unknown number for the user, It is always advisable not to send audios with very sensitive information, to be sure. Even if you haven’t listened to the audio yet (which is why you would use this tool), you can infer from the context of the conversation whether the audio is going to contain sensitive content.
A bot in WhatsApp is a artificial intelligence software which is responsible for identifying messages from users and, based on how it was programmed, gives a timely response.
The most common bots are those known colloquially as chatbots or chatbots, computer programs that simulate and process human conversations both orally and in writing, generally through a menu of options associated with a predetermined response.
They are also used to request home deliveries or coordinate medical appointments. But a bot is not necessarily conversational, it can have many uses such as transcribing audio messages.
