Siri may soon turn your voicemails into texts
You may never have to listen to your voicemail again.
Apple is reportedly testing a way to enable Siri to answer your calls and transcribe voicemail messages. Apple's iCloud will then send a text with the transcribed message to the person's iPhone.
"If certainly you hate sitting there and listening to the voicemails over and over again that could be a lot faster," CNET editor Dan Ackerman said.
Apple employees have already begun testing new voicemail service iCloud Voicemail, which can send callers information about where you are and why you can't pick up the phone, according to Business Insider. Then, rather than send the caller to voicemail, Siri will answer the call and transcribe a voice message.
But are Siri's voice recognition abilities good enough for a new challenge?
"Voice recognition is one of those things that's so tough to crack," Ackerman said. "We've gotten so much better at it over the last couple years. Siri is even a lot better than it was even a year or two ago."
If the technology works, the new service could debut sometime next year. It could come as a relief to millennials, who tend not to use voicemail as frequently as those of older generations.
"It's such a generation gap," Ackerman said. "So if you can somehow let somebody leave you a voicemail, but you get it as a text, maybe that'll make everybody happy."