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Custom VM Greeting
I would like to use an audio file (mp3 etc) to change my voicemail greeting. Can this audio file be used as a custom replacement?
Well no. You can always call in to voicemail and record a new greeting. The visual voicemail app allows you to change greetings at least on the Android version. When I had an iPhone I could record a greeting by calling voicemail and going through the menu for voicemail greeting. Digits had no effect on that. But to be clear I never got digits to work correctly with my iPhone.
but like I said previously if you'll call in to your voicemail select your voicemail greeting and record a new greeting you can record whatever is playing in the background from another speaker and that can be your new greeting.
So it's been a year since I answered this question. You haven't clarified whether you're using android or iPhone. But upon further investigation I found that my answer is still valid and while it may not be the only answer it's the only one I did find and implement myself.
I use an iPhone and I go to the voicemail tab in the phone app. You can record your own greeting. The only way I have found is rather convoluted and I'm sorry it sounds like a sloppy and ill-suited answer to you, However it does work.
Things on iOS are not as easily implemented as android because of iOS limitations. There's no way to record or upload a recording through iPhone like there may be with android. So again I don't know which operating system you're using but with iPhone I basically have to go to the camera app and choose the photo option and then press and swipe to the right on the shutter button so that it records sound that is playing from the same iPhone that I'm using.
Using the voice memo or voice recording app will cease anything playing on the phone and record from the microphone only. With the photo option you can record what is actually playing on the phone at the same time.
I then use a separate ringtone app that can take the sound from the video. This works great for custom ringtones but still there is no way to use that file while recording a new voicemail because recording a custom voicemail greeting basically does the same thing that the voice recording app does and uses the microphone to listen to you speak.
this is why I have not found a proper way to record what you want your custom voicemail greeting to be without using a separate speaker that is playing either the music or a pre-recorded voicemail greeting that you have created through any other method.
However if you’re using an iOS device, you can use the feedback tool to send the suggestion directly to Apple. Or you may use Google or DuckDuckGo or Bing or any other search engine and perhaps find an answer none of us has found as of yet.
