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Apple Wants Siri to be Your New Receptionist

posted by takyon on Tuesday August 04 2015, @11:21AM   
from the talking-to-strangers dept.

fliptop writes:

Apple is testing a service that will let Siri answer, record and transcribe your calls:

Apple's iCloud service will then send you the text of the transcribed voicemail — meaning that you'll never need to listen to your voicemails again.

[...] Here is how it works: When someone using iCloud Voicemail is unable to take a call, Siri will answer instead of letting the call go to a standard digital audio recorder.

iCloud Voicemail can relay information about where you are and why you can't pick up the phone to certain people. But the coolest feature of the service is that Siri will transcribe any incoming voicemails, just like it does with anything else you say to it.

Since they're replicating a service that carriers already provide, could this be another indication Apple is looking to become its own cellular carrier?

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• Re:Why would I want that? (Score: 3, Interesting) by scruffybeard on Tuesday August 04 2015, @02:46PM

  by scruffybeard (533) on Tuesday August 04 2015, @02:46PM (#217931)

  My experience has been much closer to the 75-85% mark, especially if you learn to read the messages phonetically. Perhaps I am not a typical user, but I am just looking for the gist of what the person wants, and determine how quickly I need to respond. Since I don't bring my phone to work, having the messages transcribed, and emailed is an added bonus.

  The question in my mind is what took Apple so long? This is functionality that has been available for a few years now. Am I missing something?

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