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Technically they are a video that must be square and short enough to qualify, and engines differ in how reliably they accept one produced outside the app. Because of that, and because a video note carries more weight than the same words in text, most automations are better off sending an ordinary video with a caption and reserving the round note for cases where a human really did record it. 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