iOS may gain Siri-powered voicemail transcription


Business Insider:

Apple sends voice data to company servers, where Siri converts the words spoken into text. iCloud Voicemail will presumably function in the same way, sending the raw voicemails to Apple, and Siri will then transcribe them and make them available on your iPhone.

Basically sounds like Google Voice's feature.

Voicemail is kind of lame these days with so many ways to leave a message. A voicemail is really just a convenience for the person call so they don't have to take a separate action to get a message to you. Translation services makes it much more convenient for the receiver.

Rumor/speculation is the feature may be available in time for iOS 10 next year.