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The voice add-on has a new name and a new version. Better Messages – Voice and Video Messages 2.0 keeps everything the voice recorder did and adds a camera button beside the microphone: short video messages, recorded in the composer, sent like any other message.

Alongside it, Better Messages 3.0 picked up two things on the voice side that this post is the right place for — voice messages that transcribe themselves the moment they are sent, and AI chat bots you can talk to instead of typing.

Better Messages 3.0 is out. It is the largest release the plugin has had: every surface of the messenger was redrawn, the styling moved out of the WordPress Customizer into the plugin's own Appearance tab with a live preview, and a handful of features landed alongside it — location messages, video messages, per-conversation translation, an offline outbox, a device cache that no longer resets itself on every update, and a Mobile App page that left alpha and is now visible on the free version.

Your conversations, settings and integrations carry across untouched, including the colors and sizes you had set in the Customizer. Three things do need your attention on upgrade, and they are listed at the bottom in Updating from 2.x.