Callwave.com at xijio::blog

Callwave is a voicemail replacement service that I’m testing out. It’s pretty damned cool from what I can gather thus far. Basically you set your phone to redirect calls to a number they specify for you and set up your voicemail there just like any other voicemail service.

It is really easy to set up; it gives step-by-step instructions on what you do to our phone. It even provides simple instructions on how to deactivate the service. Once its set up when a call goes to voice mail it gets sent to the callwave voicemail service which renders the voice data as text and sends you a text message of the recording transcript. It doesn’t work especially well but, it does mange to give some sort of idea of what the person is leaving a message about.

In addition to the text messages, you get an email with an attached .wav of the message. The best part though is the fact that it integrates with dashboard so instead of calling a clumsy voicemail service I can push F12 and see a list of all of the messages I’ve recieved and listen to them in real time.

Basically, it does everything my existing voicemail did but also sends text message transcripts and allows easy access from my desktop.

There is only one thing that holds it back from being perfect in my book. That is that it can’t (yet) import from contact data from the OSX Address Book so most numbers show up with weird caller id data (usually either just the number or the name of the person that pays the bill which doesn’t necessarily correlate to whose phone it is). Other than this I really like the callwave service and hope that they continue to keep it as a free service. Although, I might be willing to pay a few dollars a month to use it if it came to that. Definitely check it out.

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mustafe 1 year ago 1 point
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I want to set my phone to redirect calls in order to contact with may freinds that is my comment.
thank you

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Harold 3 years ago 1 point
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I'm loving the callwave spectrum of the voice to text realm. They seem to be coming out with some pretty neat stuff! There is a new one called.... Phonepage? I think... anyway...voice to text is awesome! Try out Jott as well (jott.com). With jott you dial their 1-877 number, say who you wanna jott, speak, then hang up! You can jott yourself, a friend, or a group of friends! Works well while driving especially. :)

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Jason 3 years ago 1 point
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Callwave is a pretty cool service the only thing that made me go with youmail in the end was the fact that I couldn't set up personal greetings for everyone. But overall the whole web-based voicemail solutions are really beneficial.

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