James Cook:
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 can relay information about where you are and why you can’t pick up the phone to certain people. But the coolest feature of the service is that Siri will transcribe any incoming voicemails, just as it does with anything else you say to it.
This makes sense to me. Google’s been doing this for quite a while now, but the service is surprisingly bad, considering how good Google voice is. Hopefully Apple will be able to figure out how to make the service work reliably.
This will be huge for deaf and hard of hearing people as well as people who are too lazy to check their voicemails 😉 Google Voice stopped working when I bought iPhone 6 Plus. Had to researched online and found out that you have to call ATT to turn it on which is so annoyin’ and time consuming. I’d rather wait till iOS 9 comes out this fall.
What about the people who just don’t want to take a call, voicemail or anything from telemarkers. Yes they are now calling cell ohones and it is getting annoying!