How to Read Your Voicemails in iOS 10
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Reading Voicemails
When your iPhone is updated to iOS 10, you should be able to start using the new transcription feature right away. When someone leaves you a voicemail, the iPhone will take a few moments torecognize and process the words spoken. Accessing your voicemail Tab in the Phone app will show you your visual voicemail list and tapping a voicemail will take you to the transcription.
When it is available, you will seeTranscribing… and then moments later a reasonably accurate transcription of your voicemail should be available for you to read. If you ever used Google Voice in the past, they too used a transcription service that was more often than not, accurate enough to get the point across.
You may see some incorrect words but keep in mind that it is transcribing from the usual poor phone call audio quality so it will do its best to get it as accurate as possible.
Keep in mind that this feature is onlyavailable on the newer iPhone devices starting with the 6s generation up to the current 7 and the iPhone SE. Previous generation phones do not support this feature at this time.
Transcribing voicemails is a great feature to have especially if you receive a call during a work meeting or another event where you may be able to steal a glance at your phone yet not answer. Hopefully as time goes on and more users utilize this feature, the transcription abilities will keep improving until we are getting word for word text from our voicemails.