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voice mail is asynchronous for the person sending it, but it's somewhat synchronous when you're on the receiving end: you cannot skip through the boring parts r
by cissou 12y ago
voice mail is asynchronous for the person sending it, but it's somewhat synchronous when you're on the receiving end: you cannot skip through the boring parts right to the interesting content, you have to linearly listen to the entire message. I think this is the biggest problem with voicemail. If all voicemail could turn speech into text, and it would end up in your e-mail inbox or "voice mail" app on your phone, we'd have the best of both worlds.
- wtetzner 12y agoThis is what I use Google Voice for. It translates the voice mail into text, and will send it in an email. It's not perfect, but it's good enough to figure out why the person called, and it does a good job capturing the phone number the person leaves.
- cissou 12y agodamn, I'm not in the US but that sounds very cool. Is it US only? I'm sure that's why 97% of our generation dropped voice mail. It's just not as convenient as text.
- drdeadringer 12y ago> you have to linearly listen to the entire message. I think this is the biggest problem with voicemail. I am imagining an AI layer which can skip over parts of video//voice messages for you, giving you the content you want.
- cissou 12y agothe first part is to get the content (including boring parts) right every time, and alas I think speech-to-text commercial software is still not there yet for speech where the person isn't explicitly talking to be listened to by a computer (check Youtube captions for a good laugh).