• FundMECFS
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    Actual Reality as a Deaf Person:

    Recieves Voice message

    Dude I’m deaf Remember

    Other Person: Nah forget it no way I’m typing all that down

    Me: :(

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      Have you considered that this person is just an asshole. I don’t even know anyone who uses voice messages, maybe some that use the speech to text feature to send a message. But voice messages aren’t a real way to communicate IMO. If they want to talk to me they’re gonna have to call me, so I can casually ignore it since I hate answering the phone.

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        In my region / generation they are really common. I’d say 1/10 messages in a group chat would be a voice message.

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      if you are deaf then how did u read the messages

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      Voice message transcription could probably be a pretty good accessibility-feature for chat apps, I think.

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      I know its a absolute wonky workaround but you could use a second phone and enable google speech input – or an FOSS alternative: FUTO Voice Input (Local LLM Model that works pretty great. Better than google imo. Is better finding the correct words and also putting logical punctiation. – as in when should a comma or dot appear.)

      Now you enable speech input on one phone and playback the voice message of the dude on the other end. Now you got all the text.