WhatsApp has now become one of the most used instant messaging applications, since from this application you can make use of these messages unlimitedly, using a data network from your telephone company or from a Wi-Fi network.
With this application it is possible to send any type of message, be it text, images, videos and even voice notes, thus allowing a user accessibility In different ways.
It is also possible to make your cell phone read these text messages on the loudspeaker so that in this way you can listen to them, which is ideal for those who have some visual difficultyl. This can be done by modifying your mobile settings or using applications.
How to listen to text messages from iOS?
In the latest updates, this application has managed to make this function feasible from the iOS system, since it is only necessary to use the virtual assistant, called “Siri”. This is achieved in the following way:
- The first thing to pay attention to is that you need to update both your cell phone and the WhatsApp application, and at the same time go to the wizard settings and allow the access to WhatsApp.
- So this is only enough to make use of Siri, which is achieved by saying the following command “Siri, read me the latest WhatsApp messages“.
- Automatically, this virtual assistant will begin to narrate all those WhatsApp messages that you have not read before.
- When you find unread messages, this wizard will tell you the name of the contact, the time they arrived and what the message says, including including emoticons.
- After, the wizard will ask if you want to answer using voice commands.
- Remember that this option only works when there are unread messages in the application. There is the option to use the Google assistant “Google Assistant” you just have to change it.
How to listen to text messages from Android?
From our Android devices, it is possible to listen to our messages, thanks to a virtual assistant, which also comes installed by default which can help us with our goal of reading text messages.
The main virtual assistant for Android is the “Google Assistant”, this will help you to listen not only to WhatsApp text messages, but any other message from another application that you want. Just follow the steps below:
- Once on your cell phone, you must enter the application panel and press on the application “configurations“.
- Then you must go where it says “notifications“. Press on this.
- Looking for the option “access to notifications“and once there we just have to activate the Google option.
- After that, You just have to say the following command to your Google assistant “ok Google, read my messages.
Sometimes it is possible that the wizard does not recognize the commands in Spanish, so you can say it in english “ok google read my messages”. In this way the wizard will read the messages found in the notifications.
Assistant on Samsung devices
It is also possible to read any message or statement from our Samsung devices, on activate the voice assistant function, What is achieved in the following way:
- Once on your mobile, must go to central app panel and go to where you are “setting”. Press.
- Once inside, you must swipe and press where it says accessibility.
- Press where it says “view” and later in “voice assistant”.
- Once there, you just have to activate the assistant switch.
- Immediately this happens, the cell phone will show you and Teach step by step to use this wizard.
One of the problems with this is how tedious it becomes to handle the cell phone, because things change a bit, an advantage is that everything that is written can be read.
Other alternatives on Android
If the wizard has no effect, not working or not installed, there are other applications that will help you, to be able to read the messages, that are in the notification area, these applications can read both WhatsApp, like those of any application, among the most used is Hatomico, MacroDroid Y ReaditToMe.
