Reinventing the analog answering machine for the digital age.
I suspect there’s a few of us that remember letting calls go to the answering machine only to listen in and pick up if it was someone we actually wanted to talk to.
We were all walking in the spiderwebs.
“If you’re there, pick up!”
“Call Message” sounds like something you would see in a horribly translated manual.
Call it “Live Voicemail” or something. And why would it need AI Core? Playing a recorded message is high tech now?
They literally support visual voicemail already that does all of this.
Ibas about to say I remember this being a thing for years at least with T-Mobile
Moving voicemail to the phone is just terrible. The whole point of it existing is for when the phone is off or out of service. I have been the recording end of iPhone’s version of this, when the person’s phone is at a large venue with spotty weak voice coverage, the “voicemail” ends up being a choppy unintelligible piece of garbage.
I would actually be very interested in this if it didn’t require all the usual google nonsense. I’m surprised that there aren’t any simple FOSS apps capable of screening a call without any of the fancy language processing stuff.
All it would need to do would be answer the call, play a recorded message saying “this call is being screened, please state your name etc”, put them on hold, alert me and play me their response, and then give me the option to pick up or hang up.
‘Your call is not important to us. Please hang up, and don’t try again.’
Didn’t Google Voice used to do that?
No idea, they never allowed anyone to use it outside the USA as far as I’m aware
Now you have the reliability of fifty-three messages all saying “ring me back”.
Give me visual voicemail. You put the switch on my Android. Just do it!
So screening phone calls is back again.
