[zrail]

I set up a quick and dirty version of GV with one of their provided Twimlets[1]. All it does is record a message, transcribe it, then send the results to my email address. My wife and I used this, for example, when looking for a mortgage loan (they never. stop. calling.)

I've thought long and hard about building something more complicated but I was always sort of stopped by the lack of MMS and my (apparently faulty) understanding of how their Caller ID works[2]. Not anymore!

[1]: https://www.twilio.com/labs/twimlets/voicemail

[2]: Previously I had thought you could only set registered numbers as caller ID, but turns out if you dial out while processing an incoming call you can set the caller ID as the incoming number. See here: https://www.twilio.com/docs/api/twiml/dial#attributes-caller...

[mmastrac]

I did the same thing: I wanted something like Google Voice, but it was impossible to make it work here in Canada. I also have a tiny little HTML page you can use to retrieve your voicemail and transcriptions:

https://github.com/mmastrac/snippets/tree/gh-pages/voicemail

Obviously you'd want to host that yourself somewhere private and possibly hard-code the keys.

[aroch]

Ha, I've setup the very same twimlet. My hangup was also the same as yours, I couldn't justify spending the time to figure out the, often confusing, API just to have no MMS still. I guess it's time to find some free time to hack one together!