Do you hate when you have a voicemail? I do. I just hate the fact that I have to waste time calling into the voicemail system, entering my pin which it always says is wrong the first time I enter it (which you can see from the screen its clearly correct), and then waiting for it to give me all the envelope information just to get to the pointless four minute voicemail full of things that could have been sent to me in an email. I love the ones where people reiterate what they just emailed.
Why does this topic come up? Well for one I had to clear out my voicemail box today. The bigger reason is this article I read from the New York Times. The article has some interesting stats on how voicemail rarely checked and becoming more of a thing of the past, but emails and text messages are read and answered within minutes of receipt. I always thought that if VoIP phones can translate a voicemail into an email and send it to you, why can’t cell phones do this? Speech to text has been around for years, why don’t we put it to some more good use?
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