I just got my first one and it is the shit. The e-mail came to my blackberry as a .wav attachment (they have always had that feature) it also had the message transcribed to text. One click on my phone to play it.

Quote :

"Date: Jun 25 2008 02:04:58 PM From: To : Brandon Williamson () You have 9 free Vonage Visual Voicemail transcription(s) left in your trial. "Hi (Stephanie?), it's (Samantha Gory?) calling you back. Sorry I couldn't talk right then. You can reach me at 843-***-2733. Thank you." "

If it is not sure about something it puts it in parenthesis. The first one was guessed wrong and it put "Stephanie" the message said "Tiffany" the second parenthesis was correct.

[Edited on June 25, 2008 at 4:23 PM. Reason : mod edit]

6/25/2008 2:37:53 PM

I really like the iPhones visual voicemail.

6/25/2008 2:39:29 PM

Does the iphone transcribe the voice message to text? If not, it is inferior.

6/25/2008 2:40:54 PM

The number you ****'d out in the message is up in the From: header.

Just making sure you saw that

6/25/2008 2:42:10 PM

lol
everyone call them

6/25/2008 2:52:26 PM

haha i like the 3 stars.

6/25/2008 3:09:56 PM

Does anyone know of a 3rd party voicemail provider that has a service like this? Vonage is .25 message after the first 10.

Typical bad business move on their part. I would probably pay an extra $15 a month flat for it but they are only offering it on a per message basis which I will not use.

6/25/2008 6:53:21 PM

if you google 'voicemail transcription' there are other providers. someone I know was considering starting a service doing this.

I'm surprised they can transcribe with just computer programs considering how crappy the quality is on a lot of voicemails i receive.

6/25/2008 6:57:04 PM

That's pretty awesome..

6/25/2008 6:59:10 PM

I would love to see what a drunk dial would come up as.

In all seriousness though this would really save time for anyone who gets a gazillion messages a day. It would also allow people to return messages in the car without having to write a bunch of shit down to refer back to. I am amazed that apple is the only company to see how much potential this feature has across cellular handsets.

As a real estate agent I can tell you I would probably pay up to $25 a month for this feature if it worked on my cell phone. It would be well worth it to me.

6/25/2008 7:02:47 PM

What are you talking about apple? Apple's visual voicemail just shows a name and message length and you can touch the message and it plays...

so unless i'm missing something they aren't comparable

[Edited on June 25, 2008 at 7:14 PM. Reason : although i do love the way the iphones do it..very effective ]

6/25/2008 7:13:49 PM

^isn't that all you need to know? Who called and left a message...and which ones you want to waste time listening to? Honestly if I wanted to read the message I'd request a txt message.

6/25/2008 7:32:30 PM

Yea but the problem is someone has already left you a voicemail message. I generally despise voicemail messages especially from people who ramble on and on. Maybe I'll change my voicemail greeting to say "hello, my voicemail is broken so please email me"

6/25/2008 7:47:17 PM

I do not really have the option of taking my voice mail off or discouraging people from leaving messages. I try to condition co-workers to do everything by e-mail (it is actually a faster response since I have a blackberry) but even some of them do not catch on.

6/26/2008 1:24:07 AM

I think I am in heaven.
http://support.simulscribe.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=5317&task=knowledge&questionID=60

6/26/2008 1:39:29 AM