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Apple Testing Service That Allows Siri to Answer Calls and Transcribe Voicemail

Posted by samzenpus on from the you-mean-just-like-google? dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Apple is reportedly testing a new feature which would allow Siri to answer your calls and then transcribe the voicemails as text messages. The iCloud service would then send users the text of that transcribed voicemail. Apple employees are testing a voicemail service currently and a public release isn't expected until sometime in 2016 in iOS10.

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  1. Google did it by OhPlz · · Score: 3, Informative

    Isn't this basically Google Voice? Google records the message, transcribes it to text.

    1. Re:Google did it by Mr_Silver · · Score: 3, Informative

      Isn't this basically Google Voice? Google records the message, transcribes it to text.

      I doubt the people living outside of the USA are going to care about that ... considering it's been 6 years since Google Voice launched and not even a subset of that functionality has made it over the Atlantic Ocean.

      As far as we'll be concerned, SpinVox did it first and then (hopefully) Apple did it.

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  2. Android users missing the point by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I know Google Voice has provided this for some time. I know you can use 3rd party service YouMail. You're missing the point.

    Apple is pushing for user privacy. This means that the voicemail would be transcribed by Siri on *your* phone. Nobody else would have access to it to store it or scrape it or learn from it. Not in "the cloud".