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Voicemail transcription for the UK

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GC251114

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Evening guys.

Ok so installed latest beta & still no voicemail transcription for me. Now before I start saying " damn you apple & your features not working properly " , do I have to do anything in any settings (can't see any) to get this working , or is it more carrier/country dependant ?

I'm on the EE network in the U.K. & have 6s+

Cheers guys.
 
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GrumpyTrucker

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Jun 1, 2014
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If it's linked to visual voicemail as it probably is then I think only O2 in the U.K. have that facility. No other carrier has it, or has any intention of implementing it. Cost implications I believe.
 
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LewisChapman

LewisChapman

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GrumpyTrucker said:
If it's linked to visual voicemail as I probably is then I think only O2 in the U.K. have that facility. No other carrier has it, or has any intention of implementing it. Cost implications I believe.
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EE supports visual voicemail but not voicemail transcription in the UK.
 
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GrumpyTrucker

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LewisChapman said:
EE supports visual voicemail but not voicemail transcription in the UK.
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Really? Well that's come as a genuine shock. Last I looked into it only O2 had it. My assumption was because they were the first carriers of the iPhone and I'd heard a story that it was part of the deal

I wish it was available on all carriers. Seems like such a superior way of doing voicemail. But it seems innovation and progress has pretty much come to a stop for mobile carriers, but they'll continue to hike prices to silly levels. And so is the way with everything :(
 
Mercifull

Mercifull

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EE have had visual voicemail for over 2 years but it's not enabled by default. You have to text a number to activate it. Text iPhone visual to 150.
 
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GrumpyTrucker

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It's been a while since I looked into it, but the last time I did all the carriers said "we have no plans to implement it". One of them must have changed their mind. It's not a big enough deal to get me to switch carriers though.
 
MrGimper

MrGimper

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Wow. I've been with O2 since the iPhone 3G so I've had VVM for years, however I thought every carrier had it. I'm shocked to hear otherwise.
 
big samm

big samm

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I live in Canada Carrier Rogers and got a voicemail last sunday and transcription was kind of working, the person left a message in french but didn't worked quite well...
 
coffeemadmanUK

coffeemadmanUK

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GrumpyTrucker said:
Really? Well that's come as a genuine shock. Last I looked into it only O2 had it. My assumption was because they were the first carriers of the iPhone and I'd heard a story that it was part of the deal

I wish it was available on all carriers. Seems like such a superior way of doing voicemail. But it seems innovation and progress has pretty much come to a stop for mobile carriers, but they'll continue to hike prices to silly levels. And so is the way with everything :(
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It's cost really, and to some extent I can see why - telephone calls, and even more voicemails, are in decline as more people use other means. Why invest in something that will in all probability be dead in a few years time?
 
retrospek

retrospek

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The Transcript is working on EE as well now - but I did have to set my SIRI language to US setting. I'm assuming we won't have to do this and can leave as UK when iOS 10 is released.
 
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Preetraj

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Aug 6, 2016
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Well it stopped working since then. Not sure if it was due to an updated beta. It still says Transcribing when a voicemail comes in but then that eventually turns to transcription not available. So if I look in my voicemails, only a handful have been transcribed.

Yes, I'm in the UK and on EE
 
TwoBytes

TwoBytes

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Has anyone in the UK got transcriptions working or are all the UK carriers behind again?
 
GreyOS

GreyOS

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is it still 6s onwards only or does it work down to as low as 5 (ie all iphones that run ios 10)?
 
Dino F

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GC251114 said:
Evening guys.

Ok so installed latest beta & still no voicemail transcription for me. Now before I start saying " damn you apple & your features not working properly " , do I have to do anything in any settings (can't see any) to get this working , or is it more carrier/country dependant ?

I'm on the EE network in the U.K. & have 6s+

Cheers guys.
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lagwagon said:
It's US only I believe right now (and iPhone 6s, 6s+, SE)
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LewisChapman said:
EE supports visual voicemail but not voicemail transcription in the UK.
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Mercifull said:
EE have had visual voicemail for over 2 years but it's not enabled by default. You have to text a number to activate it. Text iPhone visual to 150.
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Preetraj said:
Yes mine is working too on EE with Siri language set to US
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Visual Transcript is NOT supported by EE at the moment. There was a question on this, on their forums yeserday and an EE rep confirmed that this currently is not supported by their network in the UK.
 
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richardc1983

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I use an app called Hullomail its free and its a visual voicemail where the messages download to your phone. If you pay the subscription they also have a transcription feature. Without this feature its free to use. Check it out.
 
Dino F

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Here is the forum rep confirming its not supported:

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