Google Voice Seeking Donated Voicemails For Better Transcription

If you use Google Voice and someone has left you a voicemail message, you know it’s not perfect. Seemingly, there are words out of place — mis-transcriptions, and many other flaws which likely has the recipient in a state of confusion. But in true Google fashion, there’s a way to make it better; by donating voicemail messages.

The California-based company is seeking voicemail messages which were poorly transcribed to be donated, so that the team at Google Voice (formerly GrandCentral) can listen to them, manually transcribe them, and use it to guage transcription quality, according to Google Voice’s Vincent Paquet.

Users can donate voicemail messages by rating a message in the lower right-hand corner [of each message]. From there, users can select one of three options (Yes, No thanks, and Never) in a pop-up box to the question, “Would you like to donate this voicemail to help us improve transcription?”

[ image courtesy: Google Voice Blog ]