Comments on: Voice Mail’s Obsolescence

By: Mike P

Mike P — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:20:21 +0000

Just get a Google Voice account when they become available. It will transcribe voice mails for you. You'll be able to ascertain the tone, I'm sure.

By: Dodd

Dodd — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:36:18 +0000

I hate voicemail, largely because I am one of that tiny minority who makes a point of stating my return number slowly and distinctly. Most people just rattle it off without a care and expect you to listen three times to get it down.

So, whenever I get a new assistant, pretty much the first thing I tell said assistant is my two rules about voicemail:

1) Avoid putting people into my voicemail whenever possible. If the person insists (few do), it's okay, but I prefer that they take the number down and repeat it back to the caller so I know it's right; and

2) Never, under any circumstances (up to and including death) allow my mother into my voicemail (because I will get a seven minute message telling me everything she called to discuss and then asking me to call her back so she can tell me again).

By: DWB

DWB — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:39:54 +0000

We just upgraded our voice mail system at work. It now sends a wmv file of your voice mail to your email in box. You can set it to playback over your computer or over the phone. Of course, as always, you can also access your messages via the phone. Even then, when you access your voice mail from the phone you're actually accessing your email inbox. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not.

Still, I almost never get voice mail messages. Today it's almost always email. Very little is done over the phone. My brother works in IT in a financial services company and he says that they mostly use IM for internal communications and email for everything else.

I haven't sent a FAX in years.

By: JKB

JKB — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:39:59 +0000

Now you have voice to text so even if you think your leaving a voice mail it gets transcribed and forwarded around. More than once I left a voicemail for my realtor, only to get a reply from someone else in the office referencing my email to her.

So expect to see that voicemail showing up as a email trail in that trial.