Merge WhatsApp Text & Voice in One Timeline
Half your conversation is in voice notes. Transcribe them all and merge into a complete, searchable timeline.
A WhatsApp conversation with voice notes is half-written, half-spoken. The text messages tell part of the story. The voice notes tell the rest. Reading only the text is like reading a transcript with every other page missing.
The fix is to merge everything into a single timeline: text messages and transcribed voice notes, in chronological order.
The problem with voice notes in chats
Voice notes are convenient to send but painful to retrieve:
- You cannot search them
- You cannot skim them
- Replaying a 3-minute voice note to find one sentence takes 3 minutes
- In a group chat, nobody replays old voice notes
- If you export the chat without media, voice notes appear as "Media omitted"
The information in those voice notes is effectively lost unless someone transcribes them.
What a merged timeline looks like
Instead of:
10:32 AM - Sarah: Can we move the deadline?
10:33 AM - John: <Media omitted>
10:35 AM - Sarah: Perfect, I'll update the tracker
You get:
10:32 AM - Sarah: Can we move the deadline?
10:33 AM - John: [Voice note] Yeah, Friday works better for me. I talked to the client and they are fine with the delay. Just make sure we send the updated timeline by end of day.
10:35 AM - Sarah: Perfect, I'll update the tracker
Now the conversation makes sense. John's agreement, the client's confirmation, and the condition (send updated timeline) are all visible.
How to build a voice timeline
- Export the WhatsApp chat (this includes the .opus audio files)