Experts Warn of Voice Message Inconvenience and AI Detection Issues

Expert Yakubovich: Voice messages are convenient only for the sender.

Consensus

Voice messages are convenient for the sender but not always for the recipient.
Sending voice messages can impose additional work on the recipient, such as finding time and space to listen and potentially replaying the message.
Voice messages can convey tone and emotion better than text.
Experts suggest that senders should consider whether the recipient would prefer to receive a voice message.
There is a growing difficulty in distinguishing AI-generated voice messages from authentic ones.
54% of Russians cannot correctly identify AI-generated voice messages.
Three-quarters of respondents can distinguish AI-generated text and video, but audio remains a challenge.

Yakov Yakubovich uses voice input to generate text rather than sending voice messages. — gazeta_spb
The expert mentions that recipients may receive messages with unclear content, such as 'you know, basically, there was this story...'. — vm