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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.
LucyVall_238257 Why do you need to give your name? Why not simply say "leave a message please" - you can even get someone else to record it for you (that is what we have done)
MSF Because then the greeting that gets played to callers would be along the lines of:
"Leave a message please... is not available. Please leave a message..."
And when one user of Three's voicemail system leaves a message for another, it will say to the person listening to the message:
"Message received from... leave a message please..."
I have to agree with most people on this thread - it's always been silly that Three's voicemail system doesn't just let you skip recording a name.
Not quite as bad but still pretty dumb is EE's voicemail system, which doesn't force you to record a name, but if you then choose to, provides no way to later delete it.
SmartyTrousers Fair point! In that case, a suitable alternative would be "The person you called" or similar. My point really was that there are ways around it if you cannot get it changed.
