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Visual voicemail is one of the best things I've ever seen. Especially with transcription turned on.

• grawprog 8y ago
  I've never heard of this before. Unfortunately after checking it out, it looks like my carrier only offers it for iphones. This does look like a handy feature though.
  • dboreham 8y ago
    Hmm...I worked on this 25 years ago. Baby steps...
  • matwood 8y ago
    Google Voice will transcribe any VMs and send them as a text. The transcription is good enough to know if it's someone you need to call back or add their number to your block list.
    • grawprog 8y ago
      I appreciate the suggestion, but I've disabled all the google things on my phone and don't plan on re-enabling them any time soon.
    • chadlavi 8y ago
      this is also done automatically in iOS through the phone app
      • matwood 8y ago
        I should check that out sometime. I've been using the GV one since long before it was offered on iOS.
    • scruple 8y ago
      It can't transcribe the Chinese scam calls that I get 5x daily, though. I've taken to answering every call again recently because my family has some health stuff going on. Otherwise, I have to physically listen to every voicemail to ensure that I didn't miss an important call because someone in the hospital had a thick accent or any other benign software issue related to NLP problems.