AT&T Launches Voicemail to Text for $9.99 a Month

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AT&T has partnered with Nuance Communications to provide the AT&T Voicemail to Text service. For just $9.99 a month, you get:

• All your voicemails converted to text and forwarded immediately to you via text or email.
• The ability to reply by text, call or email.
• Voicemail forwarding by text or email.
• Storage for your converted voicemails for as long as you want.

The new service integrate seamlessly into your current AT&T voicemail without altering your greeting. For those of us who need to monitor their phone calls but don’t have time to dial into their voicemail, this feature is an absolute lifesaver.  Just as text messages made it possible for phone users to carry on discrete conversations during meetings, classes or other situations where it’d be inappropriate to be on the phone, AT&T Voicemail to Text lets you keep in touch without causing a disruption.

Because of the ability to forward your voicemail messages as emails, this works particularly well with AT&T phones with messaging and email capability, such as any BlackBerry, the LG Shine II or the Samsung  Mythic a897. The service is comparable to other pay transcription solutions, such as YouMail, which is available as an app for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android phones such as the T-Mobile G-1 and the Samsung Moment. However, whereas YouMail’s top package transcribes about a minute of each message with up to 150 messages per month at $17.99, AT&T has unlimited transcriptions of entire messages for just $9.99 a month. Google Voice also offers voicemail transcription for free, but as of now, Google Voice remains invite only. For now, it looks like AT&T Voicemail to Text service is the best bet for those who want to read their voicemails.

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This entry was posted on Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 4:36 pm by Jack Busch and is filed under AT&T. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.