AIBU to be irritated by long voice messages

I don't think I've ever listened to one that I've been glad I've listened to? It's just been someone droning on. Somebody said on here last night that there is a transcription available on WhatsApp but I don't know how to do it.

Nope annoying

I find even the short ones a pain as I have to focus fully on them to listen. Where as a text I can read whilst child is in bath making a racket or asking me questions. With voice message I miss half the message and have to re listen especially if it’s giving dates and times, then I have to take notes of them also

This is already possible apparently (not done it yet myself). You have to go into a message and then find the microphone somewhere (not the same one used for voice notes). Then it types what you say, but you do have to speak slowly and clearly otherwise it mistypes!

I message and say I can’t listen to it , can they message instead. Really annoying.

I can’t decide which was to vote in this one 😂

I have friends I regularly exchange 5 minute voice notes with. One friend leaves 20 min ones, and I genuinely enjoy listening to them whilst doing jobs round the house. Some days I spend quite a bit of time on my own, so really enjoy having voice notes to listen to.

Sadly lots of my oldest/closest friends don’t live locally, and I love hearing their voices. I would much prefer to see them more often in person and chat that way though, as agree it’s a more unnatural way of communicating.

I would have to reply "sorry don't have time to listen to your message,what are the highlights?" It might encourage her to summarise rather than hurl a diatribe at you.

Id tell her you didn’t have time to listen to all of it. Its rude to leave messages that long.

Best I can do is 2-3 mins on x2. Half an hour? Heck, no

Someone I know once chose this medium to convey a series of four-digit codes, so I effectively had to take dictation. I was not impressed.

Voicemail should not exist and voice notes should be under 1 min. If they ever ask me to rule the world these will be two of my orders.
Yanbu.

Yep, voice notes really irritate me and I'm trying to work out why. I have one friend who uses them regularly for non-urgent waffle. It feels like they're easier for her but they create a burden for me. You can glance at a text in seconds as opposed to needing to listen to a minutes long msg to ascertain whether it contains anything important.

I hate them so much and play them at 2x the speed. Can't wait for WhatsApp to implement a transcript feature that turns them into text. That would be way more useful than their bloody Meta AI thing that they've forced on users.

Exactly!
Do speak to text... THEN summarise and send...

I find excessive voice notes really self obsessed...

The only time for me when it's OK when you knkw that person is having a rubbish time and has no time... Pal who's parent was dying on her way home from hosp..

Hearing a voice message from a loved one releases oxytocin in us, reading text never releases oxytocin, no matter what words are used. So I think they have their place. But 20 minutes? No love in that scenario

I hate even short voice notes. I’d be deleting a podcast length one and not listening to it tbh.

Ask for the TLDL (too long didn’t listen) version.

YANBU. It's the most selfish form of communication, easy for the sender and hardest for the receiver as you need to actively stop what you're doing to listwb to it. If they can't be bothered typing they should speak to text. My friend and I were just complaining about this today!

I never listen to voice messages

Friend was left me a series of voice notes - I mean, come on

God I hate voice notes. I only know 2 people who send them to me, and they are the flakiest, most long-winded, self-obsessed, sanctimonious twats you could ever hope to meet. They waffle on and on, hemming and hawing and losing their train of thought, because it’s apparently just all too overwhelming to structure their thoughts and/or use their own thumbs.

Anyone who prattles on for half an hour deserves never to be listened to again.

I hate it when someone leaves a 2-minute note in a group, say a neighbourhood group, and then a dozen people reply in text form. So you can see that something has happened, and then there are 20 replies saying "Oh that's not good" and "Have you tried putting cream on it?" and you feel obliged to listen to the message (which would have taken 10 seconds to read if it had been a text) to find out that it's a failed pavlova and not a gaping head wound.

I hate voice messages yes it’s easier for someone to send one but an inconvenience for me to listen 😂

Delete, block, breathe a sight of relief. How utterly self-absorbed of them.

I just delete them. If they ask if I got their message I say No.

No, me either...

I find it odd that these voice notes have become a thing. I thought everyone universally hated leaving voicemails and now people are effectively doing them as voice notes. Not for me. I hate having to relisten to make sure I’m responding, by text, to everything. Annoying as