As usual, starting with the Google Pixel, but in the future it is expected that it will be a function that will reach all terminals with the Mountain View operating system, one of the most curious, and bizarre, functions is already being deployed: emoji audio. Just as we send a smiley face or an emoticon with a kiss, soon you will be able to sound a round of applause or, yes, loud farts while talking to your friends.
In the Google Phone App of some “lucky” people, a new function is already appearing, as shown in a video on 9to5Google, that brings together six stock sounds that we will be able to use to give a new look and sound effects to our conversations. Specifically we have at our disposal:
- Applause
- Laughter
- party sound
- A trombone for sadness
- Fart (with the characteristic WhatsApp poop icon)
- Drum roll (as the culmination of a joke, the mythical “Ba Dum Tss”)
The beauty of these sounds is that they are not sent as a WhatsApp audio that the recipient has to play to see how clever the person sending it to them is. When you choose one of them, both smartphones are synchronized and on both, at the same time, the chosen sound plays along with an animation on the screen on both while we are on a call.
And this is the key, they are not elements to send while we chat but rather during conversations, which means that we are already talking more with Bluetooth headphones or looking at the screen than with the mobile phone in our ear – or they could not be used – .
Fortunately, if we have “that” friend who is going to abuse this function non-stop, Google has implemented the option for us to deactivate it and, although we are going to lose that great performance of our friend seasoning his talk with the different sounds, we can rest assured that a fart will not sound on our cell phone at the worst possible moment.
Can the Audio Emoji be activated if they don’t appear?
We know that the funniest people in the place see the sky open with this information and the possibility of adding these sound effects to emphasize what they are talking about with their friends and their next question is: and when will I be able to try it? Well, we have to wait because it will arrive exclusively through the update of the Google Phone application, we suppose, first for the Google Pixel and then for the rest of the brands that have to implement it (or not).