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Since when is voicemail dead? It's vital for when I miss a call from a healthcare provider, pharmacy, contractor, service provider ... do y'all just sit in a sealed box all day?

Voicemail? Dead? Naww, it's better than ever. If you get that far spit something out so I can read the transcription or I'll straight up block your ass and forget you for eternity. Never do a callback if it's one of those scam robocall ring-and-hangup shits

I think the voicemail thing is very country specific, I mean here in Poland voicemail is the first thing to disable when you get the phone number, it's even considered rude to have it enabled, it stems from the times when the calls were billed by the minute and carriers seemed to switch to voicemails after too soon, like after 1-2 beeps and "sending signals" (calling without answering to communicate, like "I'll send you a signal when I'll be there" or something) was popular among the young people

On the other hand the answering machines weren't a thing here, maybe it's connected?

Also I don't get the reason behind "but some random business might call me", isn't that an unsolicited call? Of course it's a completely different thing when your number is a business number, but on the other hand why not send an email? Guessing it's a deeply cultural thing stemming from aforementioned answering machines, for me listening through the voice message is inefficient, I prefer text content, like I'd rather read the article than view the video summary, but I know some people prefer it

And here we are in the times of voice messages, my wife uses it to communicate with her friend and I'm tired of hearing those umms, food swallowing, lip smacking etc

How do you screen phone calls without voicemail?

I think it's early to declare voicemail dead. It was alive and kicking when I checked mine last Christmas...or was that Christmas 2019? Maybe I should check on it again.

And I've been assured that my work voicemail is definitely setup and functional. I trust the team that sets those things up, and I'm confident that it's doing it's job... whatever it's for.

Voicemail's definitely not dead.

I can't find any voicemail services that work the way I want them to though, so I started building my own using Twilio to handle the incoming phone call + ElevenLabs for text-to-speech + AssemblyAI for speech-to-text + Trestle Smart CNAM API for identifying the caller. I'll open-source the code once it's ready.

Was gonna say I use voicemail almost everyday. For the simple reason I'm not always close to phone and don't pickup on unknown numbers

I love getting transcripts and then returning the call that goes to their voicemail.

I had voicemail deactivated for decades. I'm not reachable? Call again later or write a message. Now that I'm older I had to reactivate it because contractors, pharmacy etc. expect and use it to send me information.

I hate voice messages in WhatsApp and the like but I can see the usage for others. My wife communicates with her friends this way. When you have to watch the kids you can send and listen to messages without having to look at your phone.

Here you have to pay to listen to them I think since the beginning, so voicemail was something very few people used and most of the time your grandma would leave one by accident.

Voicemail is dead, long live the voice message.

That drawing style remind me of the card game with the explosives and the kittens.

Edit: guy hosts his comics on amazonaws.