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RCS v3.1 update makes your voice messages cleaner with new codec support


The GSMA is starting to lean into other areas of RCS to improve the user experience.

Announced today via the GSMA blog by Tom van Pelt, the post highlights the newest RCS Universal Profile v3.1 update for users. Van Pelt states the latest update was a "collaborative effort" between global stakeholders to introduce an upgrade to users' "audio messaging capabilities." On a more technical level, this newly supported codec upgrades RCS voice messages with "highly efficient" compression and decompression of the audio file.

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