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throwaway55110 | 1 year ago

This is very prevalent in the expat community where I have many friends. I hate it. At least the current AI developments made it possible for messenger apps to transcribe the messages to text (and back, though I haven't seen that feature yet) - we both get what's best for us.

And same with voice calls and voicemail - I mostly don't accept calls and let them all go to voicemail. iPhone transcribes what they're saying in real time and I can decide to pick up.

I'm really looking forward to an AI-first total overhaul of communication UX.

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vladvasiliu|1 year ago

> iPhone transcribes what they're saying in real time and I can decide to pick up.

How does this work? Is it a carrier feature?

On my iPhone, if it goes to voicemail the call is done and the display goes to sleep. I have to go looking for the message in the voicemail to interact with it.

I’m in France and have never seen this on the two carriers I’ve used (Bouygues and Free).

throwaway55110|1 year ago

It recently started to work on my Vodafone plan. Never even had a voicemail before that. Probably not a carrier-specific feature, at least not the transcription - though passing the voicemail audio data on probably requires some carrier-side support. I don't think it's some backhand deal though, I think it's using some unusual GSM/LTE/5G capability.

saagarjha|1 year ago

It's US only.

happymellon|1 year ago

Speech to text doesn't require AI. I've had it on my Google keyboard for a very long time. Its always been accurate too.

TeMPOraL|1 year ago

In my case, it always been garbage. Speech to text doesn't require AI when you do it like Microsoft did it in the aughts; ever since "new, better", cloud-side techniques came along, the technology got worse, and the only meaningful qualitative improvement I've seen in two decades is in the last two years, with new-generation models which may or may not be backed by LLMs now.