Here's How Yahoo's New Messaging App Silently Combines Texting and Video

Users will express themselves without sound

Yahoo just released a messaging app, Livetext, which lets people chat on their phones while viewing each other on video. Here's the kicker: The video app doesn't offer sound.

So, users text while watching each other's silent reactions. Mute video texting gives Livetext a unique feature in a crowded messaging space that includes players like WhatsApp and Snapchat.

"We're introducing Yahoo Livetext—a new way to communicate that blends the immediacy, simplicity and ease of texting with the expressiveness of video, without the audio," Arju Sethi, senior director of product management, said in a blog post today.

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