Apple is planning to launch a new voicemail service that will use Siri to answer calls and transcribe messages, according to a new report. Like Google’s voicemail service, it will then send users a text with their transcribed voicemail so that they no longer need to listen to them.
“We first heard about Apple employees using a new kind of voicemail service several weeks ago,” reports Business Insider. “Here is how it works: When someone using iCloud Voicemail is unable to take a call, Siri will answer instead of letting the call go to a standard digital audio recorder.”
iCloud Voicemail has the ability to tell the caller where you are and why you can’t answer the phone — if you want it to — and once Siri has taken your message, it will be passed to Apple’s servers, transcribed into text, then delivered to you in a message.
The service is designed to solve the age-old problem of having to listen to voicemail messages. Why we don’t mind leaving them — it’s easier and quicker to leave a voicemail than send a text — not many people enjoy having to listen to them.
iCloud Voicemail sidesteps that problem, and according to Business Insider, it will arrive in 2016 — providing Apple doesn’t run into issues in testing — possibly with the iOS 10 update.
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