[londons_explore]

I'm really surprised that no chat apps seem to auto-transcribe voice messages.

It would seem obvious for the transcription and the sound file to be available to both sender and receiver of the message.

I think so far the sticking point is that message transcription is still hard to do with any accuracy on-device, and if you use a server then you can't claim e2e encryption.

[jhugo]

WeChat has been doing it for quite a while, and does a great job. Almost certainly server-side and obviously very far from E2EE though :)