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I’m tired of receiving unintelligible voicemails from people on my Android cell phone. Listening to them over and over trying to get enough words to understand their messages.

Is there a tool or tools that I can use to create an audio file from a voicemail and turn it into text that I can read?

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Great question.

I keep trying speaker phone on my home phone

In my case my cell phone is an iPhone and

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I’d like subscripts.

Yeah, even with my I90s connected via Bluetooth, it’s still often impossible to make sense of the messages that people rattle off when they spend all day reciting their script. Doctor’s office staff, for example.

Both iPhone and android can do visual voice mail. I’ve used at&t, vzw, and t-mo, and it has worked well with iPhones on all of them. So I’ll assume the need is for home phone? Would one of the phones that converts what your party on the other end says into typed language work for voice mail too? I’ve seen them at the audiology clinics, but never felt the need to investigate because we haven’t used a landline phone for years.

Does anyone know?

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Cell phone for me. I’m assuming at this point that these apps are vendor- specific for US cell companies. They must be tied into the cell network. Those suppliers are not available in the Canadian market.

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I’m on Rogers so there might be a chance that they have something for Android…

Edit: it looks like it’s only a list of voicemails on the Rogers app with no transcripts available

Edit 2: It turns out that Rogers do have an add-on Voicemail-to-text service that does what I want it to do for $7 per month. Going with that.

I use InnoCaption for all phone calls, which gives voice to text for all calls and voice mail. Works beautifully on my Android phone. I think it works on iPhones as well, but I’m not sure.

@CaptainTrips said:

I’m tired of receiving unintelligible voicemails from people on my Android cell phone. Listening to them over and over trying to get enough words to understand their messages.

Is there a tool or tools that I can use to create an audio file from a voicemail and turn it into text that I can read?

If you have an android, with google phone dialer, there should be a Voice mail icon on the right side.
Setting up VVM may involve your carrier, but it should work.
Some people use the YouMail app from the play store, which they say provides transcriptions, but it may be a paid app.
My favorite, b4 I was able to get the native VVM to work was to use google voice.
Voice is free from google, and all you do is set it up, and forward Busy/No Answer calls from your primary number to Google Voice!
You get a notification, and full transcript, and even a e-mail of the message!

Important step is to obtain the Dial Codes for your carrier in order to enable call forwarding.

Apple has this built-in with some carriers. There is a recent feature that , if you don’t answer the phone, the iPhone will start showing you the message the caller is leaving in your voicemail on the screen live and, if you see it is something you want talk to the caller, you can press a button and take the call. It is VERY cool. My carrier is Verizon.
There is also the standard visual voicemail which do what you ask. All post-paid carriers offer this but I know some prepaid carriers don’t.
My comments apply to US carriers, no clue outside of the US

“InnoCaption is a federally funded”. Only available in the US.

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I have Innocaption on my cell phone also. Works great. I also have it on my home computer.
I would be lost without it. I can now carry on conversations and read what is being said as we talk. Love it

Innocaption looks like an excellent service and free! But their website confirms it’s not available to people outside the US because it’s funded by the US FCC. Those of us in other countries have to look for a different solution.
Edit: my apologies BarryH, I missed seeing that you’d already said this!

Update: I’m excited to announce that Roger’s Wireless in Canada does have a Voice-To-Text add-on service for $7 per month and it does work as promised. I get a text transcript of the message and an audio file via SMS automatically after missed call. For me, its worth every penny.

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