Google Audio Emoji Rolling Out for Android Phone App With Visual Sound Effects During Calls Here’s How to Activate It

Google has recently introduced a new feature for Android users that shows fun audio and visual emojis during phone calls. The new feature called “Audio Emoji” has been added to the Google Phone app. It allows users to send sound effects during calls, which aims to make audio chats more fun. The Audio Emoji feature works only when the phone is in speaker mode. Apart from this, there is a slight gap between the time of sending emojis to maintain the flow of conversation during calling. This feature has currently been made available to beta testers and over time it may make its way to the stable app.

Initially by 9to5Google saw The Audio Emoji feature is currently made available for beta testing among select users in the Google Phone app’s beta program. If you are a beta tester, you can now use this feature in your Google Phone app. The video shared by the tech website shows how a user can select an emoji during a call and the emoji pops on the screen with an animation along with funny visual and audio effects.

It currently features six featured emojis, including sad, applause, celebration, laughter, drumroll, and poop. The feature has been in development since last year and is finally available in the latest beta version (version 128) of the Google Phone app.

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As we mentioned, the audio emoji feature only works when the phone is in speaker mode. Also, you cannot send emojis one after the other immediately. Google has reportedly kept a little gap between sending two emojis to maintain the flow of conversation. If you are also a beta tester and use the latest Google Phone app, then this is how you have to use Audio Emoji:-

  • Go to ‘Settings’ of your phone app.
  • Tap on the General section here.
  • Now tap on Audio Emojis.
  • Here, tap on the toggle to enable the feature.

Once activated, users will see a button for Audio Emoji on the screen during calling.

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