Comments on: Tempest in a Voicemail

By: jack

jack — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:03:37 +0000

Definitely Youmail for me too. I’m addicted to the reverse lookup for unknown callers and the MP3 attachments. I don’t use the feature that can hang up on selected callers (ditch mail) but use it when i travel. I wish they’d have a feature that can choose different greetings based on time of day.
Oh, and i saved over $200 by checking my voicemails online when i was in germany a few weeks ago.

By: ruben

ruben — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:18:16 +0000

Youmail.com has been the best solution for avoiding voicemail. I wish my company would use it. It sends the voicemail as an mp3 attachment into your email. You can also do custom greetings based on who calls.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:25:33 +0000

YOUMAIL!!!

Tons of ways to get your messages. I have a custom voice message and get all voicemails in an
email with
voice to text,
caller id,
and an audio attachment of the message I can open in my blackberry media player and listen to if I want.

And it is free although texting charges, etc. depend on your phone carrier plan.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:34:52 +0000

Sooner or later it doesn’t matter. Jott and similar services will eventually overcome the speech to text barrier. I have used both Callwave and Youmail. I keep going back to Callwave because I get the transcripted text in my e-mail and to SMS. In the end it doesn’t matter

By: Ellie

Ellie — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:27:24 +0000

Voicemail annoys me. I only use it at work. In my perosnal life, I just can’t deal with it!

By: Todd Andrews

Todd Andrews — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:46:34 +0000

We need to get to the root of the problem. Voice to Text programs help but we need to reduce supply in the first place. Get others to stop leaving VM in the first place.

By: Mike D

Mike D — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:57:36 +0000

I hate voicemail, The only time I ever miss timely, important information is when someone leaves it for me as a voicemail only. After reading Arrington’s post I looked at the companies doing voicemail transcription and decided to go with Phonetag to start.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:35:10 +0000

I turned off my voicemail at my desk about a year and a half ago. I have been using Callwave until yesterday when I switched to youmail.

I don’t leave voice mails unless I am being cute or sappy. For business I don’t usually even wait for voice mail to pick up.

The missed call on the phone is good enough to have the person call me back.

By: Brett

Brett — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:01:50 +0000

Intensely dislike voicemail. It’s disruptive, quality always drops just as the vmailer is leaving their number, and most vmailers leave completely pointless vm’s.
If you need to put something on my mobile, text it to me – I don’t have to go through a whole process to access it.
Never leave them myself, and usually just delete mine in one go…

By: Paul J.

Paul J. — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:43:00 +0000

I compromised in the middle. I switched to SpinVox (voice-to-text service) so I get my voice mails as messages. It’s not perfect but it’s much better than listening to endless people blab on. Those who want to leave a message do. Those who don’t, send mails. I get everything in my in-box as readable text.