Google's new messaging app translates your voice into emoji 🎉

Google is working on another experimental messaging app, this time in the audio space. 

The new app, Supersonic Fun Voice Messenger, is the second app to come out of Google's Area 120 incubator this month. A group video-watching app called Uptime dropped on iOS last week.

Supersonic transcribes everything you say and replaces words with emoji where it can. As you can see below, my friend sent me lyrics from Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable": 

Which Supersonic transcribed to:

The transcription is both extremely accurate and lightning fast. Supersonic transcribes the message in real time as your friend is speaking into their phone, which is a cool touch. This means that you don't have to wait for your friend to send the entire message before you start seeing the transcription.  Read more...