Vonage Visual Voice Mail
When someone calls and leaves me a message, Vonage tries to transcribe it… and then emails it to me. Here’s one I got today:
Hello this message is for Justin Benson, this is leave it out I’ve been on the eighth seminar from putting shelves in the school. I just called to remind your appointment for today at 145. I’ll do your home 212, 3B Star rolls of how the height, 2123 at least I will know how the heights. Please call me at xxx-xxx and this is for your birthday Michelle, it’s Sharon blood in her urine testing. Okay thank you. bye bye
As it turns out, this was just the receptionist at the local veterinary clinic confirming an afternoon checkup and reminding me to bring in a sample for testing. I was killing time before a meeting, casually flipping between a sports betting app and a new tech podcast, when this masterpiece of artificial intelligence landed in my inbox. I still have no idea where “putting shelves in the school” came from.