@mikey I agree. I've been using them for years. the transcription is pretty bad, but usually just good enough to get a sense if I should actually listen to it or not. Lately it has been transcribing a lot of cuss words that weren't actually in the message...
I don't text and even if I didn't have an old ass flip phone. I still don't want to text. I use my landline mostly.
My loved ones know this. I want to hear their voices. It's mostly my kids or grandkids who leave messages on my landline or cell, and I listen and call them right away. Texting is too impersonal, at least with voicemail I can kinda figure out how their feeling. So yes always right away.
If you took a time machine and brought, say, Ben Franklin, to present day, he would make the faulty assumption that the ability to send messages over thousands of miles via voice was the more advanced (and generally preferable) technology. But texting proves that people want to avoid any "real" interaction with other humans while still presenting the illusion that they really care.
The medical industry still depends very much on talking to people, for better or worse. (Now isn't as bad as it was all spring and summer, though.) I'm surprised to see I'm less dysfunctional than most Mehtizens by not minding it that much.
Work voicemail goes to my work email as a .wav attachment. I don't really get Cell voicemail, but I listen to it via T-Mobile's Visual Voicemail app. It's nice to be able to skip forward and back in the message and play whichever message you want without listening to them all.
I can't carry my phone at work, so I get home voice-mail and work voice-mail. Annoying thing is, press 7 to save the message in one and press 7 to delete in the other, and I can never remember which.
When I become dictator for life of the planet, they will all be standardized, in addition to microwave oven control layouts and numerous other things. I'm starting a list.
I. Hate. Voicemail. Just email me!
@nhbillups Amen!
@nhbillups My voicemail has been full for months.
@nhbillups
I strongly prefer voice to text programs for vm, but refuse to pay for them...
@Thumperchick Google Voice does an adequate job for free.
@mikey I agree. I've been using them for years. the transcription is pretty bad, but usually just good enough to get a sense if I should actually listen to it or not. Lately it has been transcribing a lot of cuss words that weren't actually in the message...
No, it checks me.
Ugh, who has time to listen to those slow disgusting moist human mouth-sounds. Send a text please.
Yes, sometimes you need the nuances.
Too Long. Go to 2:00
@mfladd That "Please leave a message" gets me every damn time.
@mfladd Hurry, there's no time, click me!!!
I'll check it over my own dead body.
No transcription at work, and no way to get the god-awful red light to go out without playing it through to the end, but no… no, I don't listen.
I don't text and even if I didn't have an old ass flip phone. I still don't want to text. I use my landline mostly.
My loved ones know this. I want to hear their voices. It's mostly my kids or grandkids who leave messages on my landline or cell, and I listen and call them right away. Texting is too impersonal, at least with voicemail I can kinda figure out how their feeling. So yes always right away.
I do, because nobody really ever calls me, unless it's the store while I'm out working.
If you took a time machine and brought, say, Ben Franklin, to present day, he would make the faulty assumption that the ability to send messages over thousands of miles via voice was the more advanced (and generally preferable) technology. But texting proves that people want to avoid any "real" interaction with other humans while still presenting the illusion that they really care.
The medical industry still depends very much on talking to people, for better or worse. (Now isn't as bad as it was all spring and summer, though.) I'm surprised to see I'm less dysfunctional than most Mehtizens by not minding it that much.
I don't because to do so would mean I care. And I don't. Meh.
Work voicemail goes to my work email as a .wav attachment. I don't really get Cell voicemail, but I listen to it via T-Mobile's Visual Voicemail app. It's nice to be able to skip forward and back in the message and play whichever message you want without listening to them all.
what's voicemail?
@dvdmlnd wait...I can use my iPhone to make phone calls?!
I can't carry my phone at work, so I get home voice-mail and work voice-mail. Annoying thing is, press 7 to save the message in one and press 7 to delete in the other, and I can never remember which.
When I become dictator for life of the planet, they will all be standardized, in addition to microwave oven control layouts and numerous other things. I'm starting a list.
@PocketBrain Ah yes, microwave controls- it's perfectly obvious that you would press Power to key in the exact time you want.