How to send a voice message from a smartphone and computer to VK

For what we come to social. network? Of course, for new information, communication. Chats, forums, dialogs have become familiar. But not everyone likes to write “sheets” of text to their interlocutor. Some thoughts are easier, closer and more convenient to express with your voice. Vkontakte users finally got this opportunity in September 2016. Let's see how to send a voice message in VK. We will analyze the features for both a smartphone and a computer.

What is a VK voice message?

First, we will determine what it is in general, before we learn how to send voice messages through VC. Last year’s innovation has nothing to do with ordinary phone calls, voice or video communications via Skype. However, the feeling of lively communication (if you want - its illusions) is still present.

How to send a voice message in VK? You activate the voice recording mode and say into the microphone of your device what you need to tell the other person. Send this sound message, and your friend can listen to it more than once at any convenient time - the message will be stored in the chat history. In addition, it can be sent to another person. As for saving the record in the gadget’s memory, neither the browser version of Vkontakte nor the official application of the site provide such an opportunity so far.

Who can benefit from this? Those who don’t like to click keys or run their fingers across the screen of a smartphone, business people who have free time by the minute, drivers who are bored in traffic ... Yes, and to each of us who wants to diversify our communication on social networks and be a little closer to the interlocutor.

How to start using it?

Before sending a voice message to VK, you need to make sure of the following:

• The official Vkontakte application is installed on your smartphone.
• Soft VK on the gadget has been updated to the latest version (or at least to the one that came out after September 2016 - the month of the introduction of this innovation).
• A microphone is functioning properly on the phone and laptop, and a sound recorder is connected to the computer. Without this, you naturally cannot send this kind of message.

Sending from a smartphone

So is everything updated? Let's now look at how to send a voice message from a phone to VK:

1. Launch the official social network app.
2. Open the necessary dialogue in the "Messages".
3. In the lower right corner you will see a schematic microphone icon. It is he who starts recording your voice or other sounds that you want to share with the recipient.
4. If this is your first time using the feature, then perhaps the application will ask for permission to use the device’s microphone. Answer by consent.
   
5. You can start recording in two convenient ways. First:
   1. Hold the microphone symbol with your finger.
   2. Start talking, record sound. When you release your hand, the recording will be interrupted, and the voice message will be instantly sent to the other party.
   3. If during the process you want to cancel it, then you need to make a swipe from right to left with the same finger pinching the microphone. His blue icon during this turn to the trash on a red background, and the record will be deleted.
6. The second option:
   1. Hold the microphone icon with your finger and pull it up. Now you can talk without touching the screen of your device.
   2. To end the recording and instantly send it, you need to click on the round blue button with the up arrow, which turned the microphone picture.
   3. To delete, click on "Cancel".
   4. With this method, it is possible to listen to the recording before its message: at the end of it, tap on any free field of the dialogue. In an unsent message, click on the Play triangle to start listening. By clicking on the cross, the record can be deleted, on the arrow - send.

Sending from computer

Let's see how to send a voice message from a computer to VK:

1. Open the page with "Messages" in the browser, select the desired dialogue.
2. Click on the microphone icon.
3. The first time you use the function, you must give the site permission to use the microphone of a PC, laptop.
4. Now when you click on the microphone icon you can talk. Recording stops by clicking on the square in the red circle. After that, he will turn to the Play button, and the recorded can be listened to.
5. By clicking on the cross, the entry is deleted.
6. Depart by familiar clicking on a sketchy paper airplane.

So we figured out how to send a voice message in VK in all ways and from different devices. Enjoy your communication!