{"id":518293,"date":"2023-12-04T10:36:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T08:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=518293"},"modified":"2023-12-04T10:36:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T08:36:53","slug":"telegram-launches-major-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/518293-telegram-launches-major-upgrades.html","title":{"rendered":"Telegram launches major upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram users on Android and iOS are getting some significant upgrades, including channel suggestions, the ability to repost stories, and voice-to-text transcription for free users, the company has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/blog\/similar-channels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The voice message transcription feature was previously only available to Premium users. However, there is a limit for free users \u2014 they can only transcribe two messages per week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With this update, all users can convert up to 2 messages per week into text \u2014 simply tap the \u2192A icon to try it out,&#8221; said Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Telegram Premium still allows for unlimited voice-to-text conversion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company is also rolling out a channel suggestion feature that will recommend similar channels when a user joins a new one.<\/p>\n<p>Telegram will only recommend public channels, and suggestions are based on similarities in subscriber bases.<\/p>\n<p>All Telegram users can now also repost stories from their contacts or channels to which they are subscribed.<\/p>\n<p>The company says users who repost stories can add extra content, including text, audio, or video comments.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the latter, Telegram is rolling out a feature that lets users add a video bubble to their stories.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When posting a story, you can now add a video message to supply commentary or simply make a face,&#8221; said Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>Video messages in stories can be resized and moved around the screen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The creative possibilities are endless \u2014 from giving backstory to a photo to creating a video conversation with yourself as different characters,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/it-services\/517941-big-growth-for-spars-rival-to-checkers-sixty60.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Big growth for Spar&#8217;s rival to Checkers Sixty60<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upgrades include voice-to-text transcription for free users, story reposting, and channel recommendations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":472177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17934],"tags":[35,23753,91273,88564,19164,91271],"class_list":["post-518293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-smartphones","tag-headline","tag-telegram","tag-telegram-channels","tag-telegram-stories","tag-voice-to-text","tag-voice-transcription"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518327,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518293\/revisions\/518327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}