Does anyone know of any privacy-oriented voicemail clients for Android that transcribe messages?

(If this isn’t the best place to post this, please let me know!)

  • paradox2011@lemmy.ml
    7·
    10 months ago

    I’ve looked for this off and on over the years and haven’t found anything I really liked. The closest I came to it was Youmail. It isn’t an open source app, which is a bummer, but it seems to be a (at least sort of) privacy respecting company. I remember reading their privacy policy at one point and not seeing anything terrible in it.

    • radix@lemm.eeOP
      2·
      10 months ago

      Thank you, the 20 transcriptions allowed per month is more than enough for me. It is unfortunate that it’s not open at all, but it is what it is, I suppose.

      • smorksA
        2·
        10 months ago

        I use youmail free too. I doubt it’s very privacy respecting, but it does the trick for the few voicemails I get.

        I built my own a while back using twilio and my own android app, but gave up on it, can’t remember why exactly anymore.

    • radix@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      10 months ago

      I don’t know of any way to save voicemails as audio files, unfortunately.

      • TeddE@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 months ago

        Ahh, so this isn’t a processing issue it’s a data access issue.

        Frankly, if you can’t access the raw data of your voicemail inbox, probably no third party developer can too. This means that the only way to implement such a tool would to be to work with the voicemail provider. If they’re a for-profit company, they probably have no incentive to make the data available unless there’s a big moneybag involved somewhere in the exchange. That’s probably why no such tool exists.

    • radix@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      10 months ago

      That’s far slower than I would like, and it doesn’t allow a nice visual layout of all the messages in your inbox.