Reddit Talk's New Update Adds Recording and Replaying Conversations, Web Support, and More

 

HIGHLIGHTS

• Reddit is featuring new recordings. There is a playback bar in Talk.
• Reddit is experimenting with the live bar functionality.
• Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces both provide competitive social audio elements.

Reddit Talk, its audio talking platform, is getting additional capabilities to compete with Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces. The firm said on Wednesday that it will now allow users to record and playback Reddit Talks on the platform. Furthermore, it allows anyone to participate in or listen to live audio conversations via the Web. This was previously restricted to Android and iOS users. During a live audio discussion, Reddit Talk users will be able to utilise text and emoticons as well. In addition, there is a new experimental live bar option at the top of the feed that displays when there are live Reddit Talks.

Reddit announced the addition of new capabilities to Reddit Talk in a blog post on Wednesday. As previously stated, the new upgrade allows listeners and hosts to reach out to a larger audience by making recordings of previous sessions available. The recorded sessions include a playback bar that allows Reddit users to skip, pause, or unpause the recording, as well as fast-forward or rewind it.

Users may now use Reddit Talk features via a web browser, according to the most recent upgrade. Through Reddit's website, people may join the Talk sessions as listeners and raise their hands to talk. Later this month, the social networking site plans to introduce the option to start a Reddit discussion on desktop.

The business has introduced support for comments and emoticons to let users to express their opinions during Reddit Talks. Redditors may participate in conversations without speaking thanks to this feature. Finally, Reddit is testing a new live bar at the top of the page that displays when there are live Reddit Talks.

In April of last year, Reddit launched Reddit Talk as its own live audio platform. Since then, the social network firm has been constantly introducing new features to compete with Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces. The latest Reddit Talk upgrade comes far later than its competitors, who debuted comparable capabilities in 2021.