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Since when is voicemail dead? It’s vital for when I miss a call from a healthcare provider, pharmacy, contractor, service provider … do y’all just sit in a sealed box all day?
A basement actually
I sit in a box and I smear shit on the walls
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no, I call my doctors or other services to verify dates… voicemail is abused by spammers so I never listen to them
You’re aware that you can see the phone number of the caller, right?
See the number? Hell, I’ve had transcription since at least 2010.
Private or unknown number? Assuming my phone is on. Please think.
Your phone will show the phone number of the person who left the voicemail. Please think.
Not every number is private or unknown. Please think.
Don’t be mad. It’s literally someone else’s phone habits, lol. What a silly thing to get upset about.
I didn’t say every number is private - I said spammers leave voicemails from private numbers so you won’t know who they are. It makes sense, right? “Sirius XM left a voicemail” is obviously spam, but “Unknown number left a voicemail” could be somebody important. Critical thinking, friendo :) Good luck!
I send all unknown calls to voice mail. I’ve had my carrier disable voice mail for my phone line.
My providers all use email or are ‘known’ by my phone. … I hope.So when the new specialty pharmacy phones you for details on where to send your prescription, you’re just gonna … not?
My pharmacies have always sent me a text notification that my prescription is ready for pick up. The only people calling my phone are scammers
I think the voicemail thing is very country specific, I mean here in Poland voicemail is the first thing to disable when you get the phone number, it’s even considered rude to have it enabled, it stems from the times when the calls were billed by the minute and carriers seemed to switch to voicemails after too soon, like after 1-2 beeps and “sending signals” (calling without answering to communicate, like “I’ll send you a signal when I’ll be there” or something) was popular among the young people
On the other hand the answering machines weren’t a thing here, maybe it’s connected?
Also I don’t get the reason behind “but some random business might call me”, isn’t that an unsolicited call? Of course it’s a completely different thing when your number is a business number, but on the other hand why not send an email? Guessing it’s a deeply cultural thing stemming from aforementioned answering machines, for me listening through the voice message is inefficient, I prefer text content, like I’d rather read the article than view the video summary, but I know some people prefer it
And here we are in the times of voice messages, my wife uses it to communicate with her friend and I’m tired of hearing those umms, food swallowing, lip smacking etc
Yep, Scandinavia here signing under this as well. Well written!
How do you screen phone calls without voicemail?
I don’t answer the phone for unknown numbers. Super simple
Yep, if it’s important they’ll leave a message. Wait…
If it’s important I’ll be expecting a phone call or know who is calling me. All that a voicemail does is tell spammers that they have a valid and active phone number that they should keep calling.
Are these people just raw dogging phones calls?
Voicemail? Dead? Naww, it’s better than ever. If you get that far spit something out so I can read the transcription or I’ll straight up block your ass and forget you for eternity. Never do a callback if it’s one of those scam robocall ring-and-hangup shits
Yeah I love voicemail. It’s an easy way to tell if I need to return a call or it was a scam
I think it’s early to declare voicemail dead. It was alive and kicking when I checked mine last Christmas…or was that Christmas 2019? Maybe I should check on it again.
And I’ve been assured that my work voicemail is definitely setup and functional. I trust the team that sets those things up, and I’m confident that it’s doing it’s job… whatever it’s for.
Hahahaha, have my upvote.
Yea, we don’t bother at work. You know I called, don’t waste your time listening to a message. If I called, it was urgent, get back to me as quick as you can.
Otherwise I’m gonna send you a message to setup a call.
Edit: guy hosts his comics on amazonaws.
I do love the oatmeal, but everything he does now is just for money. He’s probably just got a team of writers at this point.
What makes you say that? The website seems way less ad heavy or monetized than most webcomic sites. I dont even see a link for a patreon or any sort of paywall. Theres one trailer for his netflix show but thats barely even self promotion, and doesnt come close to the shameless levels of nearly begging that a lot of webcomic artists do.
Was gonna say I use voicemail almost everyday. For the simple reason I’m not always close to phone and don’t pickup on unknown numbers
Who even leaves voicemails anymore? If I don’t reach somebody I just sent them a quick text why I called and whatever to call back.
Doctors offices, bill collectors, anything to do with finances basically.
Finance, medical, family, contractors (yard guy, HVAC guy, etc.), service providers (auto shop, insurance, etc.) …
Really? All of those are email or texts for me. Genuinely can’t remember the last time I recieved or sent a genuine phone call.
Well that’s your zone. Where I am its email text and voicemail. Only time I get emails is from companies I deal with regularly the rest go to VM. The odd texts I get are about 60/40 spam\phish or doc appts
Voicemail’s definitely not dead.
I can’t find any voicemail services that work the way I want them to though, so I started building my own using Twilio to handle the incoming phone call + ElevenLabs for text-to-speech + AssemblyAI for speech-to-text + Trestle Smart CNAM API for identifying the caller. I’ll open-source the code once it’s ready.
Seems awfully over complicated. Why not just use some twiml verbs like <say> and <gather>?
Twilio’s TTS isn’t as good as ElevenLabs, and their transcription isn’t as good as AssemblyAI. AssemblyAI can pull key details out of the message (eg people’s names, company names, callback numbers, etc) and IIRC it’s quite a bit cheaper than Twilio’s transcription. AssemblyAI provide $50 free credit to try their service, which should last me a very long time assuming it doesn’t expire.
Plus now I can put “AI engineer” on my resume, lol. A lot of “AI” is all about gluing other people’s work together, and that’s exactly what I’m doing.
That drawing style remind me of the card game with the explosives and the kittens.
That’s because The Oatmeal made that game
Here you have to pay to listen to them I think since the beginning, so voicemail was something very few people used and most of the time your grandma would leave one by accident.
