Vonage Visual Voicemail–How good is it?
Notsogood. Vonage Visual Voicemail is a service where they’ll type up your voicemails for you and send them to you in an e-mail. They charge 25 cents per message.
Sounds great, right? You can scan an e-mail quickly, whereas a voicemail can take a few minutes to listen to. With voicemail, you also need to write down any important phone numbers.
Sometimes, it works great, and sometimes it’s awful. For example, here’s how they transcribed a very clear voicemail message:
“Hi. This my sent it. Why iraq at some my name is when i send i’m i’m i’m not a lot of times. I’m calling to come from our point of for tomorrow morning at 8 am fair enough 3 fifty. You have any questions or like changing things he’s gonna so call back at 61739311 a there was. You know. Thank you.”
Notice the phone number is incomplete and it doesn’t tell you who it’s from. Really, it tells you nothing. Here’s the original voicemail message (typed by me):