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by smkelly 2548 days ago
Do you have any more information or a write up on what you're doing with Twilio and voicemail? That sounds sort of interesting.
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chrismeller 2548 days ago
You can actually do voicemail within Twilio for free using their TwiML Bins and Functions, you don’t need any extra hardware to maintain.

Just did this for a couple of numbers I set up with SIP. The docs were... confusing and inaccurate but I finally got it to work.

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djhworld 2548 days ago
No write up unfortunately, I actually made it a few years ago as I was getting a lot of recruiter spam calls, but ever since the GDPR came in that has stopped. I don't receive that many calls these days.

I have my (cell) phones voicemail set to my Twilio number. When a voicemail request hits Twilio, it calls an endpoint hosted on my Pi, which then just calls the Twilio APIs to

1. tell the caller to leave a message after the beep

2. record the message

3. use the speech-to-text API to transcribe the message

4. send me an SMS message with the transcription

It's really just an ersatz visual/text voicemail service that I think iPhone users get. Also the Twilio speech-to-text transcriptions are hilariously bad, I don't think it copes well with UK accents :)

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