I downloaded the latest update to voicemail and decided to trial the text transcription feature. I am wondering if anyone has purchased this feature. I think it is kind of cool, but I think having to pay 1.99 a month is kind of stupid.
Those that are trying it or have purchased, what are your thoughts?
I think it's stupid too. Considering Google Voice will do the same thing for free.
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jesusice said:
I think it's stupid too. Considering Google Voice will do the same thing for free.
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And GVoice is so damn easy to integrate on this phone, especially for the voicemail service.
Gmail's version gets the job done well. It may not be perfect, but you usually get a decent idea of what's being said.
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I have been looking for answering machine for my HTC, Imate unfortunately I never come across this. I any one in the forum or developer of software for mobile can develop this or is it not possible. We have many software in market and many developer but I don't see why is not been develop.
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It's called voice mail and it comes with pretty much every phone plan on earth. That's why there's no development for such a product - there is no need for it.
Lidberg said:
It's called voice mail and it comes with pretty much every phone plan on earth. That's why there's no development for such a product - there is no need for it.
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answering machine isnt like voicemail, with answering machine you could listen to the caller leaving a message, just as you would on a home answering machine, then pick up if you wanted, I had that option in my old sprint flip phone sanyo 4500.
Lidberg said:
It's called voice mail and it comes with pretty much every phone plan on earth. That's why there's no development for such a product - there is no need for it.
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Yeah and with every phone plan on earth, it is very restricted unless you are willing to pay a fortune to the provider.
iggy said:
Yeah and with every phone plan on earth, it is very restricted unless you are willing to pay a fortune to the provider.
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Restricted how? I have AT&T and VM is included for free. I can check it from anywhere very easily. It does exactly what I want it to do.
with htc there seem to be a pretty steap deviding between pda and phone when it comes to speakers
do a search for requests for recording conversations
do a search for answering machine
do a search for getting the "phone" speaker to work with skype and other VOIP
it seem to be a hardware design issue
Lidberg said:
Restricted how? I have AT&T and VM is included for free. I can check it from anywhere very easily. It does exactly what I want it to do.
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Canada for instance, don't know about other countries, you either pay $7-10 for three VMs or pay 15 or more for a few more, so no it is not always included in the plan.
here voice mail is included in all subscriptions i believe
never heard of anybody having to pay extre for it
Rudegar said:
here voice mail is included in all subscriptions i believe
never heard of anybody having to pay extre for it
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Unlike other countries where little competion exists but carriers are intent on providing the maximum services, Canadian providers are exceptionally greedy. They've got the cash cow all to themselves and milking every last drop out of it. Hopefully this will change soon...
Rudegar said:
here voice mail is included in all subscriptions i believe
never heard of anybody having to pay extre for it
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Unfortunately not all countries are built the same (mind you prices have gone down - but still not included), all providers in Canada are about the same, see below:
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Had magicall on my WindowsMobile phone, which was retired recently.
I had it setup to add a "*67" to any telephone number I called that was not in my contacts list. Additionally, I had a "group" named "Blocked Calls" which it would add the *67 to as well.
Whenever I called a number and it would be blocked the phone would give 2 short "vibrations" to tell me the number was blocked.
I would LOVE to have a program like this for the droid..... provided it worked well enough. An on/off widget would be nice, but not needed.
I know an app like this would sell well in the 'droid market place..... hell, I'd gladly pay $20 to have something like this again.... it's very important to me.
Where I work we are not issued cell phones but we are required to have them (Sucks, Huh?)..... I don't like the average "joe" I call on my phone to get my mobile number.... However my family won't answer blocked calls.. Go figure
You should turn this into a BOUNTY, I would happily pay $10 to $20 for this app to any developer who can make it like magicall.
Anyone else that likes magicall hop on board...
OP and I are in for dough.
Why not sounds like it could be a decent app....
Well, so far it looks like a few people like Pie....
Any takers on the $$$ for this app?
Use Google Voice, give out Google Voice # works great for me
Lessthantito said:
Use Google Voice, give out Google Voice # works great for me
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Well, I've setup google voice on my droid... I've had the voice # for a while now infact. However, this would still not achieve what I'm looking for. I need my # to show up as blocked to people I call for security reasons.
CarbineReloaded said:
Well, so far it looks like a few people like Pie....
Any takers on the $$$ for this app?
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I could make it, but really $20 is too less for spending few weekends on it.
I can still mash something up for your particular need in one weekend. But If it needs to be a generic app which can meet a lot of requirements, then it will take good 3-4 weekends.
If you put it on the market you're sure to make more than $20 from it...
Its a solid app in Windows and does have a following...
If this is such a sure thing, why not pay a developer to create it and transfer ownership to you? You could sell it on the market yourself and rake in the dough.
id love to have magicall back too... one of the few apps i miss from the minmo days
I've been having problems with my phone 'dying', and from another thread kindly pointed out by WB it seems as though it could be a notification queue error (although it may also be a 2G/3G issue).
It appears that memmaid can help fix this notification queue problem. However, I've just been on their website and I'm not willing to pay the $24.99. Mainly because I think it absolutely sucks to have to pay for something to correct an issue that shouldn't be there in the first place. Partly also becasue I've come from an iphone that just works without all of these glitches (and may I add that there are 1000's of free apps, AND fixes if you jailbreak it and if you can get free solutions on one phone OS, why not them all, bloody microsoft ), and partly becasue I'm a northerner and don't like to part with cash lol.
Therefore, I'm wondering if there's a free alternative, or at least a cheaper alternative that will help correct the notification queue problem?
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I've been having problems with my phone 'dying', and from another thread kindly pointed out by WB it seems as though it could be a notification queue error (although it may also be a 2G/3G issue).
It appears that memmaid can help fix this notification queue problem. However, I've just been on their website and I'm not willing to pay the $24.99. Mainly because I think it absolutely sucks to have to pay for something to correct an issue that shouldn't be there in the first place. Partly also becasue I've come from an iphone that just works without all of these glitches (and may I add that there are 1000's of free apps, AND fixes if you jailbreak it and if you can get free solutions on one phone OS, why not them all, bloody microsoft ), and partly becasue I'm a northerner and don't like to part with cash lol.
Therefore, I'm wondering if there's a free alternative, or at least a cheaper alternative that will help correct the notification queue problem?
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http://www.dinarsoft.com/memmaid/download.html
Doesn't say anything about a fee?
Toss3 said:
http://www.dinarsoft.com/memmaid/download.html
Doesn't say anything about a fee?
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the download seems to be free im guessing you will need to activate it or somthing?
paulking said:
the download seems to be free im guessing you will need to activate it or somthing?
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Been running it fine for 5 days now and nothing mentioning an activation fee has come up.
Toss3 said:
http://www.dinarsoft.com/memmaid/download.html
Doesn't say anything about a fee?
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Pretty sure it's a 15 day free trial, and then you'll have to pay
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Pretty sure it's a 15 day free trial, and then you'll have to pay
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Yeah just noticed that.. sucks that we have to pay for software that HTC should provide for messing up the device in the first place. The constant dropping of my 3G connection and the "dying" that requires a hardboot are driving me insane. This is definitely my last HTC device if WM 7 doesn't improve things.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Gesai5WlE
Apparently the Matrix is real!
Man, I can't wait to see how this new advertising campaign plays out!
Who's ready for another 1.05 million?!
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I dont know why they decide to come up with this commercial after its realeased and not before... the phone speaks for itself in the store it looks exactly the same as an iphone to the general public which is a big plus... there was 8 people at the store today swapping moto droids for the incredible... my day 1 battery life sucked but I was messing with it all day... I let it die until it shut itself off... I still believe that this is the way you need to train your batteries whether it is true or not
Nice. Now all I need is a Google voice invite.
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Nice. Now all I need is a Google voice invite.
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I've had google voice for months now... its only useful if you plan on using alot of minutes and setting your google number in a favorite 10 number... all numbers in and out of your phone show as your google number on the network... with android integrated google voice its nice but it was a pain in the arse for other phones
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I've had google voice for months now... its only useful if you plan on using alot of minutes and setting your google number in a favorite 10 number... all numbers in and out of your phone show as your google number on the network... with android integrated google voice its nice but it was a pain in the arse for other phones
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I'm on T-Mobile with the myFaves plan and my monthly bill often has both minutes and SMS at less than two dozen
Even if you don't use your Google number as a favorite or for calling people, everyone can still use it for free SMS, especially since it's instant-push now!
Nice commercial.
I love my google voice. Free visual voice mail with transcription. If thats not enough, you can record conversations, conference call with up to 4 people, free sms, and receive one call from several numbers. When ever someone says here is the info, I just dial the number 4, and the conversation is recorded for play back later. Very nice.
I recently was prompted (and subsequently required) to update the Voicemail apk to the newest version. This update adds a voice-to-text feature, however this is a horrible implementation of said feature.
75% of what the person says is transcribed into gibberish no matter how clear the person's voice is, and if they aren't speaking clearly then it won't even come close to matching what they said. It was a good idea Sprint, but the attempt was futile in my opinion as it really doesn't work well at all.
Anyone had any luck getting it to transcribe accurately? I thought it was just me at first, but I tried it on my sister's Epic and my girl's Evo and it is exactly the same quality.
Just thought I would share my experience with you guys.
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Good thing it's a free trial then....
I agree that it is a joke.
Even with it being a joke though. Why in the world is it a trial? I mean comon aren't there enough phone out already that use this feature that are completely free to their phones.
What's even worse is that their version works alot better. I can remember some older samsung phones having this feature that worked alot better than this one.
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Good thing it's a free trial then....
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Exactly. I can't listen to a message without reading the text and laughing to myself lol, hopefully they get it working better with a final release...
Sent from my Xtremely Syndicated and Emotionless Epic 4G
Stick to Google Voice if you need transcripts and avoid this mess of an app lol.
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they actually wanna charge for that mess.
Just a quick question just flashed rom an dk17,got manatory update,will this break root???Or can i just update?
rob97ss said:
Just a quick question just flashed rom an dk17,got manatory update,will this break root???Or can i just update?
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You're fine to update, all it does is update the voicemail .apk. If you can somehow get around updating it I would advise to do so, as the update is a complete waste of space.
You should be using Google Voice for voicemail anyways. It's infinitely better than the voicemail.apk, even if you don't want transcription.