I dunno, but here's a way to visual voicemail your own mail (this is how I have been doing it since 2015):

1. sign up with a voip provider that either terminates on your own pbx (e.g. asterisk/freepbx) or provides voicemail with emailed audio files. setup said service with voicemail.

2. setup your favorite container system and let systemd manage the service

3. create a container that watches for new audio voicemails , when it finds a new voicemail push it to your favorite cloud provider (s3, gcp bucket, azure etc) then trigger that providers speech-to-text function on the audio file in the related cloud storage. store the resulting text message and metadata in a db.

4. create another container that simply watches that db for new messages and push out alerts however you see fit. you have many paths here. i went with a web-based ui that pulled the data ala google voice.

3 years ago mozilla dropped deepspeech which changed everything - https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech i have since replaced step 3 with my own deepspeech server. none of my data goes to any of the major privacy violators with this setup.

I know I’m the late 2000s, if you had a smartphone there was a line item charge $10-15 for smartphones. If you had a blackberry you got BES, if you had Apple you got VVM.

The excuse the carriers used for charging for it was always bullshit. But like hotel WiFi, if you had one of these smartphones you didn’t care because work was paying for it.

$2.99 for me. Not a huge cost, but certainly frustrating considering the non-existent burden to the provider.