Telegram rolls out video-to-text transcription for premium users

Telegram has up to date its app with new options and visible updates, together with the addition of voice-to-text transcription for movies, separate matters in massive group chats, and “Collectible Usernames.”

Video messaging transcription will be accessed by tapping the “→A” button on the bottom-right of a video, however gained’t be out there for everybody — very similar to Telegram’s present voice message transcription, the function is restricted to Telegram Premium customers. A Telegram Premium subscription prices $4.99 a month and comes with extra advantages reminiscent of sooner downloads, no advertisements, and a bigger file add restrict of 4GB.

Telegram has additionally launched new options without cost customers, beginning with Matters in Teams. This enables teams with over 200 members to create separate areas that perform like particular person chats, with their very own notifications unbiased from the bigger Group. The set-up is just like Discord servers which have a single overarching focus but additionally aspect channels for extra particular conversations. You may check out the function your self in Telegram’s personal public group.

Subsequent up is Collectible Usernames, an NFT-like asset secured by the TON blockchain community that may be bought and offered by way of Fragment. Telegram says these self-importance names will be lower than 5 characters lengthy and performance identical to common usernames, showing in International Search outcomes and producing ‘username.t.me’ and ‘t.me/username’ hyperlinks that can be utilized exterior of Telegram.

Telegram’s Evening Mode has additionally been redesigned for iOS customers, making colours extra balanced with higher blurring results as customers scroll by way of chats, whereas Android customers will profit from new choices to resize textual content — together with hyperlink previews and reply headers — by way of the Chat settings. Some minor design enhancements have additionally been added, reminiscent of pulsing placeholder chat bubbles when messages are loading and a brand new animation for swiping left to answer. Lastly, Telegram Premium customers have entry to 12 new emoji packs (some with a seasonal Halloween theme) that may be set as person statuses or utilized in messages and captions.

Telegram rounded off its replace announcement with an apology for its delayed launch, saying that “Apple took two weeks to evaluation the replace.” Telegram founder Pavel Durov gave extra particulars in a devoted publish, saying “Apple claims they evaluation apps inside 24 hours, however, in our expertise, it takes at the least 7-10 days for any significant product replace to succeed in the App Retailer.” This isn’t the primary time that Durov has publicly criticized Apple, having beforehand accused the tech big of delaying updates for weeks and eradicating the power for customers on iOS to create pay-to-view posts as a result of Apple’s strict App Retailer pointers.