Voice mail has always been my nemesis. I only used to check it when my voice mail was FULL (and people would email me and let me know). Anyway I am sure you can see the problem with that and especially potential lost business opportunities.
When I was co-hosting the bbgeeks.com podcast last week I brought this up and the host told me about several transcription services out there and in particular recommended
PhoneTag. So I signed up.
What does it do? Basically it takes what someone says in your voicemail and sends you a email with all the text including the number they called from. Looks like this:
As you can see it has there message transcribed perfectly even with punctuation. Out of the 20 or so messages I have gotten I have been amazed at the transcription level. Even from EASL (english as a second language) peeps. Also they include a wav file of audio they transcribed incase you want to listen for yourself. The cool thing is most phones can play these files.
It was very easy to setup. I had to call Sprint and tell them to forward my unavailable calls to a new number and was up and running in about 5 minutes after signup. I set my new message and gave it a test. It worked flawlessly.
So whats it cost? Its 10$ for 40 messages per month or 30$ for unlimited.
I went with the 40 messages for now and we will see how that works out. They also have a flat .35 cent per message rate.
If you are looking for a service like this
I highly recommend them.
P.S. If you want to sign up without using my link just goto phonetag.com (dick)
