What Is Visual Voicemail?
Visual voicemail is an enhanced voicemail feature that makes it much easier to receive and manage your messages. It uses a visual menu that gives you total control so that you can listen, re-listen, delete, save, forward and organize your messages with just one click. Some services use voice recognition software so that you can actually read your messages in text format. Visual voicemail makes life a lot easier for everybody.
Visual voicemail made its debut as an application for Apple iPhone. Although it appeared there first, it's now available for all kinds of mobile devices. It caught on quickly because of the convenience and, let's face it, the inconvenience of the old voicemail boxes. There are also versions of visual voicemail for PCs so that you can receive your cellphone messages in your email.
Managing Your Messages
Visual voicemail allows you to completely manage your messages. It tells you who the message is from, when it was received and other data. You can save your messages in folders within the program, or forward them to another phone or your email. The best part is that you can do it all using your smartphone.The old voicemail system now seems ancient by comparison. Everyone knows the frustration of that system. You have to call the service and wait through the menu until the item that you need. If you had 10 messages and wanted to hear only the 9th, you'd have to listen to them all. You might have a boring rambling message from a long-winded friend that you received before an important business call, but you'd have to listen all the way through! And if you missed the prompt you needed - it was back to start.
Easy-To-Use Interface
Visual voicemail gives you your messages in a visual display. This display differs depending on which service you use. The display shows you a menu where you can view or manage messages by simply clicking. Every year new versions are coming out, with the latest being Google Voice for Android, which uses the device itself as its platform and doesn't require an additional application.A great benefit of visual voicemail is that it lets you see who called you before you listen to it. This helps you get rid of the spam messages that are starting to clog our voicemail boxes. You can dump them straight into the trash. Since you can see who's calling, you can also prioritize and listen to the most important messages first.
One great thing about visual voicemail is that you can often get it for free as a smartphone app. There are open source versions available for download. You can also get it from a service provider as part of a features package.
Visual voicemail is making life a lot easier by letting people check their messages using an easy visual interface. This saves lots of time and headache by giving you access to just the messages you need, just when you need them.