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, which shows funny audio and visual emojis during calling on the phone. A 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. The feature is currently made available to beta testers and may make its way into the stable app over time.

Initially by 9to5Google saw Well, the Audio Emoji feature is currently made available for beta testing among select users in the beta program of the Google Phone app. If you’re 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 while calling and that emoji pops up on the screen with an animation along with funny visual and audio effects.

It currently has six select emoji added, including sad, applause, celebration, laughing, drumroll, and poop. This 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 can’t send emojis one after the other. Google has reportedly kept a slight gap between sending two emojis to maintain the flow of the conversation. If you are also a beta tester and use the latest Google Phone app, then you have to use Audio Emoji like this:-

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

Once activated, the user will see a button of Audio Emoji on the screen during calling.

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