I’ve been ranting to anyone who’ll listen for years that I absolutely hate voice mail. For the past couple of years, I have actually waited as long as possible or until my mailbox was full before I’d listen to my messages. Interestingly, my mom is the only one who realizes she can call me and if it goes to voice mail she can just hang up because my phone will show I missed her call.
All that changed yesterday. I never thought I would say this, but please leave me voice mail! I just discovered a service called PhoneTag. PhoneTag intercepts your voice mail (you actually transfer your voice mail service to them) then transcribes the message into text. The service then emails the text of the message to you and attaches the original message as a WAV audio file if you really want to listen to it.
The best part is that it is crazy accurate. I received a 40 second message this morning that was letter perfect including punctuation — very impressive.
PhoneTag offers a free 30 day trial membership then you have paid options thereafter. You can choose from a per message fee of $0.35 each, a flat fee of $9,95 for 40 messages ($0.25 each if you go over) or $29.95 per month for unlimited messages.
Give them a try. If you sign up using the links here you’ll get 30 days free.
