# Everything In Conversation: To Voice Note Or Not To Voice Note

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Podcast: [Everything Is Content](https://stenobird.com/podcast/everything-is-content-6706393)
Published: 2026-05-13T04:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Happy Wednesday EIChatters! To voice note or not to voice note, that is the question. In a piece for the Independent from the start of the year Helen Coffey explored whether a rise in voice notes has helped kill the art of conversation. She writes that despite being an initial sceptic about voice notes and finding them awkward and less useful than a phone call, she has since come around and become a primary source of communication in her circle. A 2025 survey commissioned by Sky Mobile found that 62% of voice note recipients had experienced ‘voice note fatigue’, and 20% said they’d personally received a voice note longer than 10 minutes. More than one in ten said they received over 10 voice notes a day, and 44% said they listened at double speed to get through them quicker.  There’s also apparently a geographical element to this that suggests the UK is actually lagging behind other countries in our adoption of recorded messages. A 2024 YouGov survey found that 48% of Indian respondents either preferred receiving voice notes or liked them just as much as texts, compared to just 18% of people in Great Britain.  We dive in with your help! We hope you enjoy, as always please do rate, review and share us with a friend :) Kisses! O,R,B x The inexorable rise of voice notes: ‘I’m thinking of you – I just don’t want to speak to you’ VOICE-NO! Brits call time on long voice notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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