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Voice messages: if they'd rather talk, they talk

A long part number, a tangled question, one hand on the parcel: sometimes speaking is faster than typing. Your team listens and reads along.

Included from Professional
A conversation in the inbox with the visitor's voice message: player with duration and, below it, the transcript with the part number.

In short

With voice messages, a visitor records a message of up to two minutes in the chat window instead of typing. Your team hears the recording in the inbox and reads the transcript at the same time. Speech recognition runs in a dedicated service on SilentChat's own servers — the recording is not passed to any third-party speech service.

HOW IT WORKS

From recording to transcript

  1. Visitor records

    One button in the chat window, up to two minutes.

  2. Speech recognition transcribes

    In a dedicated service on our servers, not with a third-party speech service.

  3. Your team listens and reads

    Player and transcript sit side by side in the conversation.

What it takes off your team's plate

1

Asking again because of typos

Part numbers, names, addresses — spoken, and written out in the transcript.

2

Listening in an open-plan office

The transcript is usually enough; the recording is there when tone matters.

3

Typing long replies

Your team can dictate too: what they say lands as text in the input field, to be checked and sent as usual.

Data protection and voice messages

Speech recognition runs in a dedicated service on SilentChat's servers in Germany. The recording is not passed to any third-party speech service or any US provider.

The recording is stored as an attachment to the conversation and deleted along with it according to your data retention rules.

Read more in: Sub-processors · Technical and organisational measures · All facts at a glance

Frequently asked questions

Up to two minutes. After that, the chat window stops recording on its own; the visitor can record another one.

In a dedicated service on SilentChat's servers in Germany. No third-party speech service receives the recording.

Your team can dictate: speech becomes text in the input field and goes out as a normal message once checked. SilentChat does not send voice messages to visitors.

As long as the conversation it belongs to. You decide when conversations are deleted in the data retention settings.

Voice minutes per month depend on the plan; the pricing page lists them for each plan.

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Last updated: 23 September 2026

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