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Voicemail Greeting
Hi there. I know this thread is a few months old now, but I completely understand where you’re coming from with this. I have the same issues. What I did, was Google a text to speech service that said my name and record that as the greeting. There’s also “how to pronounce” videos on YouTube that have many names. That’s my workaround to the. I agree though, forcing people to record their own name to set up voicemail does make it inaccessible to some disabled people. Lots of folks are non-verbal for example.
I’ve started a chat with someone asking about this so I’ll keep you updated, but they seem to think when I say the service is “inaccessible” because to people with anxiety and disabilities, they mean I physically can’t access it. 🙄 Not the first time this has happened. SMARTY is not accessible for disabled people in the slightest.
Oh, I didn’t mean to randomly put because after accessible. My bad!
ConfinedCelery7 Please can you explain what you mean by "inaccessible"? In what way? Is there something missing that is offered by other networks?
I have quite literally never ever EVER had to record my own voicemail messages. There’s always an option too, but it’s never default and the ONLY way of having one. I’ve never had to “set up” a voicemail either.
No other network forces you to have to speak to set up your own mailbox. Nor does any other network pause your services because you’re having a breakdown to your carer and you’re “sending too many messages”, and then take 24hours to get it back up and running again, while you’re stranded 3 hours away from home and can’t get back because you have no signal and no 4G.
ConfinedCelery7 When you refer to "sending too many messages", how many roughly? I know that the system will suspend users who try to send out bulk messages as this looks like commercial activity.
As far as setting up a voicemail is concerned, it is possible to have someone else merely say "please leave a message" if the system will not accept silence (I've never tried that)
