How to reply with your voice
Email has no hold-to-record button like WhatsApp. You record first, then attach it to your reply. Here is the shortest path on each phone.
iPhone
- 01 · Find the appSwipe down on your home screen and type Voice Memos. It comes with every iPhone.
- 02 · RecordTap the big red circle, speak, tap it again to stop.
- 03 · Send itTap your recording in the list, then Share → Mail. Address it to the reply address in your issue.
Android
- 01 · Find the appSwipe up and search Recorder or Voice Recorder. Every Android has one, under one of those names.
- 02 · RecordTap record, speak, then stop. On Samsung you also have to tap Save.
- 03 · Send itTap your recording, then Share → Gmail. Address it to the reply address in your issue.
The microphone on your keyboard is dictation. It turns your voice into text and sends no audio — there is nothing for us to listen to. Record in the recorder app instead.
No recorder app? Anything that makes an audio file works. Even a video: record ten seconds of your ceiling while you talk and attach that. We only listen to the sound.
Stuck? Write to support@aprubo.ai and tell us which phone you have. A person answers.
Most people have sent thousands of voice notes on WhatsApp and none by email, so the first reply feels harder than it is. It is almost always the same misunderstanding: there is nothing to press and hold. You record first, and then you attach the recording. Two steps instead of one — that is the whole difference, and once you have done it once it takes about twenty seconds.
Why the keyboard microphone doesn’t work
This one costs people their first take, so it is worth saying twice.
The microphone on your keyboard — in Mail, in Gmail, in Messages — is dictation. It listens to you and types what you said. What arrives on our side is a wall of text with no sound attached, and there is nothing for us to measure: no pace, no pauses, no pronunciation. You will have spoken, and we will have received an essay.
You’d get an email back telling you exactly that, which is better than silence, but it still costs you the take.
From a computer
Any recorder works. Record a file, attach it to your reply, send it. Nothing in the system cares which device you used.
What we can actually open
Anything a phone produces — m4a, mp3, ogg, wav, and the formats email apps convert to on the way out. If something arrives that we cannot open, you get an email that says exactly what did arrive instead of silence.
Two things worth knowing before your first take
Speak for the whole time. A ten-second reply is not enough to say anything reliable about. You will get a snapshot that tells you so rather than a number we do not believe.
Don’t re-record to make it perfect. The take worth measuring is the one you would give under time pressure, on the first try. That is the one the exam will ask for too.