This is a concept, not a WhatsApp feature. I built it as a working prototype.
The problem
Voice note transcripts are useful for skimming, but they're disconnected from the audio. If you want to hear one part again, you're back to dragging a tiny scrubber and guessing.
What I built
The transcript becomes the scrubber. Tap any word and the voice note plays from there. The words light up as it plays, so you can follow along.
The dotted words are the ones the transcript wasn't sure about. You can tap them and listen to check. In the demo, "Holland" is meant to be "Haaland".
Decisions
Marking low-confidence words is the honest part. A transcript that looks fully confident when it isn't makes people trust the wrong words.
Built with React, TypeScript and Motion. Try it here: https://uzookafor.com/voice-note
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A WhatsApp voice note prototype: tap any word in the transcript to play from there, with uncertain words marked so you can check them. React and Motion.
