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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.
vjtk wrote:These guys do it all. T hey have a voice-over service (including writing the greeting script) and transfer the greeting to your phone in super high quality. I couldn't find anything better online anywhere. https://www.okcvideoproduction.com/upload-custom-voicemail-greeting-wav-mp3
This is literally the worst thing I've seen all month. Whoever is shamelessly charging people HUNDREDS of dollars to upload an MP3 file as a voicemail greeting needs to be tarred and feathered in a public square immediately. It should make any honest human being livid to learn that unscrupulous jerks have the gall to rip unwary, technologically-challenged people off like this...and are getting away with it! And you know anyone falling for this scam is, like, well over 50 years old - so this is literally elderly abuse.
Also, how come THEY get backdoor access to my tmobile voicemail greetings?! If so, why is tmobile complicit in this?!!!
Or do they just, like, send you an audio file and go “well your visual voicemail app debería have the option to...”
IN ANY CASE, AN ALTERNATE (AND EXPONENTIALLY CHEAPER) SOLUTION PRESENTS ITSELF:
Apparently, the “easiest” way to do this is to use a 1/8th inch to RCA wire - but with all THREE of the RCA outputs. I don’t have one on hand to test out if it works, but what is supposed to happen is that the 3rd RCA out - the yellow one, commonly used for video - corresponds to a “hidden” mic input that is built into the headphone jack, which is how those dorky telemarketer hands-free headphones/mic headsets pipe the mic audio from the headset, overriding the built-in mic.
From there on out, it's easy peasy: the RCA output can be plugged into anything that emits sound. If you have an 1/8 to single RCA converter piece, you can run the 3rd RCA out into your computer's headphone jack, or whatever you have that plays audio out of an 1/8th inch jack. (Make sure your audio file is MONO, 'cause you only get 1 channel.)
The only thing to keep in mind is that, compared to a mic input, the line out on most devices is very very loud. So you'll have to turn your playback volume down way low and experiment until you get it nice and loud - but not clipping up past the zero DB point. (There's probably some app out there that lets you monitor the mic input level.)
This should be a somewhat cleaner way of solving this problem than, say, trying to hold your phone to a speaker that’s playing back your custom greeting. It’s not perfect, and a simple “upload audio file” function to that visual voice mail app would have saved me hours of anger, headache, and fruitless rummaging around the basement.
Just because the world is full of dumbed-down, coddled, complacent kinder-adults doesn’t mean companies should treat their userbase as if they are all cut from that cloth.
