Do you love or hate voicemail?

[k0ua]

My only complaint about voice-mail is some callers leave inaudible messages...or they talk too fast to understand what was said.

Many of the later versions of voicemail systems I installed for business had a feature to let you either slow down or speed up the speed of voice of the person that left the voicemail without lowering or raising the frequency of their voice. In other words, not chipmunks or bullfrog sound, but several levels of faster or slower speech. Which is a pretty good trick if you think about it.

 

[Oaktree]

I prefer e-mail to any other form of message.
Texting is not acceptable for business related communications...personal texting (wife, GF, BF, kids) is OK. Of course, texts can be ignored as easily as voice-mail. Texting while driving is illegal in many states and pretty stupid.
My only complaint about voice-mail is some callers leave inaudible messages...or they talk too fast to understand what was said.

I rarely use my cellphone and never check it for voicemail. I do have an answering machine on the home phone. As far as voicemails go, leave a BRIEF message that gives me the gist of why you called. Some people go on and on and on, and others like my wife's sons just leave something useless like "mother, call your son".

As far as preferences...if it's important, call otherwise an email is fine. I don't do texting.

 

[dmccarty]

I prefer e-mail to any other form of message.

Yeppers.

My only complaint about voice-mail is some callers leave inaudible messages...or they talk too fast to understand what was said.

Yep or when they talk so fast you can't write down their phone number so you have to listen to the message several times. It just wastes time. Why does someone have to talk so fast to leave a message and/or phone number? :confused3:

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

Many of the later versions of voicemail systems I installed for business had a feature to let you either slow down or speed up the speed of voice of the person that left the voicemail without lowering or raising the frequency of their voice. In other words, not chipmunks or bullfrog sound, but several levels of faster or slower speech. Which is a pretty good trick if you think about it.

My work voice mail allows one to slow or speed up the message. The problem is that the system is complicated/confusing that I don't have a clue how to speed up or slow down the message. :confused3::laughing::laughing::laughing:

There are a bunch of buttons on the phone that are obvious about what they do but I don't really use those buttons/features. :laughing::laughing::laughing: It really is funny how little we use the phone today. The vast majority of our phone usage is to call into meetings and we very seldom use the phone to talk one on one to anyone anymore.

Later,
Dan

 

[k0ua]

My work voice mail allows one to slow or speed up the message. The problem is that the system is complicated/confusing that I don't have a clue how to speed up or slow down the message. :confused3::laughing::laughing::laughing:

There are a bunch of buttons on the phone that are obvious about what they do but I don't really use those buttons/features. :laughing::laughing::laughing: It really is funny how little we use the phone today. The vast majority of our phone usage is to call into meetings and we very seldom use the phone to talk one on one to anyone anymore.

Later,
Dan

What brand is the system,? I may be able to tell you how to slow down or speed up the speech.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

If I missed a call and they don't leave a message, it wasn't important and they don't get called back, unless it is close family.

 

[/pine]

There is no cell service here at our place so I manage voicemail via a land line...it stops all the messages from coming up when the cell phone is booted where there's service...