[mattnewton]

I think on-device text transcription is getting good enough where hopefully it catches on. I've been impressed by how good it works on cheap Android phones for English, no idea how it is progressing for other languages but I have to imagine it will; but there is a question of whether senders still prefer the voice snippets for some reason. Transcribing on the receiving end could work too but unfortunately has disadvantages like not having access to the sender's dictionary and corrections.

[smoe]

Spanish seems to work quite well also. Know a couple of people that dictate their messages regularly. Even had a situation when for the live of me I couldn't understand a local because of his very strong dialect (I'm a fluent speaker, but not native). After some intents he got frustrated, picked up his cheap android phone to talk into and the transcription worked perfectly.