

Like Telegram groups before them, we hope that Voice Chats will change the way people collaborate and keep in touch. To create a Voice Chat and find your own unique way of using them, open the profile of any group where you're an admin, tap (⋯) or (⋮) and select Start Voice Chat. To get these right, our designer had to sell his soul to the devil – and we think it was totally worth it. Last but not least, Voice Chats show spectacular animations. Voice Chats can accommodate a few thousand participants, which means they'll work for everything from consulting family members while out shopping to a massive live event.

You can chat with whomever is online or invite more people via the handy menu. In larger groups, they also provide serendipitous opportunities for talking to people. While Voice Chats are not group calls, they can achieve similar goals – at the same time offering flexibility instead of old school scheduling.

They can be used as virtual office spaces for teams or informal lounges for any community. Voice Chats run in parallel to existing text and media-based communication, adding a live layer of ephemeral talk to the group. UPD March 2021: Don't miss Voice Chats 2.0: Channels, Millions of Listeners, Recorded Chats, Admin Tools Voice ChatsĪny Telegram group can now become a voice chat room that is always on. Our 12th update in 2020 brings them to you just in time for remote Christmas carols. Today, Telegram groups get an entire new dimension with Voice Chats – persistent conference calls that members can join and leave as they please. Many of these features were later incorporated into other apps and redefined how people communicate. Since 2013, we've been expanding the definition of Group Chats, adding features like replies, mentions, polls, admin tools, statistics – and allowing hundreds of thousands of members per group.
