How to make OBI play a message for blocked / unknown / anonymous incoming caller
Stewart:
Quote from: mike_terror on March 08, 2012, 11:20:19 pm
Regular callers will come through and ring on my house phone, if I'm not home, my house phone's answering machine will pick it up and record their VM.
Do you think this is a better approach?
Unfortunately, you can't change the time when GV voicemail picks up -- it's fixed at 25 seconds. Allowing for call setup time and quantization errors, you'd have to set your answering machine to pick up at 20 seconds or sooner. Also, you'd lose GV's voicemail transcription, saving messages forever, and many other nice features.
What problem do you see with a separate Callcentric account (or other free voicemail service)?
mike_terror:
Stewart, I like your idea of the free voicemail account too. Your idea is to basically have the incoming blocked caller from SP1 (GV) dial out with my SP2 (Call Centric) to another telephone voicemail greeting correct?
I checked out call centric and I don't happen to see a free inbound voicemail account that I can sign up for.
RonR:
FWIW, I don't use Google Voice voicemail and have my answering machine pick up after 4 rings that reliably beats the Google Voice 25 second trip-point. I'd rather be able to set it to 6 rings, but 4 isn't a problem.
If you can live with that, I think your scheme works.
RonR:
Quote from: mike_terror on March 08, 2012, 11:33:20 pm
I checked out call centric and I don't happen to see a free inbound voicemail account that I can sign up for.
I have a free Callcentric account and it's only a matter of enabling voicemail (it's disabled by default).
Stewart:
Quote from: mike_terror on March 08, 2012, 11:33:20 pm
I checked out call centric and I don't happen to see a free inbound voicemail account that I can sign up for.
Get a free (IP Freedom) account. Then, order Voicemail for it (also free).
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