The voicemail of a phone is in the Phone app: the Voicemail tab, then the message itself.
Phone voicemail
Voicemail to quotes with timestamps in English
Voicemail to quotes with timestamps in English: send the file and get the text with the timecodes. One file may be up to 30 minutes on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro.
3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps
In short
What the iPhone stores is what the engine needs. The English speech becomes the list of quotations in the sections Who spoke, Quotes with timestamps, Themes; one file may be up to 30 minutes, and 3 files a day are free.
How to get the file and turn it into quotes with timestamps
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Do not rely on the built-in text
The transcription of the phone is in beta, it covers English messages, and it depends on the quality of the recording
- 2
Send the file to the engine
The widget takes the file of the Voicemail as it is and marks the speech as English, so the engine does not have to guess what it is about.
- 3
Ask the task for the list of quotations
The instruction of the list of quotations is written for this task already: it reads the text of the Voicemail and asks for Who spoke, Quotes with timestamps, Themes, and it keeps every claim to the transcript.
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Mark the language of the speech
The recording of the Voicemail is in English, and that is one of the 99+ languages the engine reads; the setting of the widget says English and the list of quotations follows.
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Check the file before the upload
The transcript of a voicemail is shown next to the message on the screen of the phone
What comes back from the engine
- TXT
One segment per line, the way a person wrote it down. It is the format to paste into a ticket, a chat or a document.
- TXT, CSV
The start and the end time of every segment, and the speakers named separately when you ask for it.
- SRT, VTT
SRT and VTT with the time of every line, so the recording can carry its own subtitles.
- Markdown, DOCX
The transcript is edited through the API and exported as Markdown for a wiki, or as DOCX for a review.
What iPhone keeps, and what it says about it
The transcript of a voicemail is shown next to the message on the screen of the phone.
The transcription of voicemails is in beta and covers English messages only.
The transcription of a voicemail depends on the quality of the recording of it.
up to 30 minutes on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro
$0: 3 files a day, up to 30 minutes per file, no card
$10 a month when you pay yearly ($120 a year), or $20 a month
The case
What the recording does not give you
The voicemail of a phone is in the Phone app: the Voicemail tab, then the message itself. The English speech of the Voicemail is read first, and the list of quotations is what the editor of the interview gets out of the transcript.
Tips
The sections of the list of quotations are the same for every recording.
The language of the widget is the language of the Voicemail.
The file of the Voicemail stays on your own disk.
The transcription of voicemails is in beta and covers English messages only.
The transcription of a voicemail depends on the quality of the recording of it.
Questions about Voicemail and quotes with timestamps
What does the iPhone say about the Voicemail?
The voicemail of a phone is in the Phone app: the Voicemail tab, then the message itself. The engine reads the English speech of the Voicemail and writes the list of quotations from that text.
Which problems can come with the Voicemail?
The transcription of voicemails is in beta and covers English messages only. The engine does not change the file of the Voicemail; it reads it as it is and writes the list of quotations.
How is the list of quotations built from the Voicemail?
The engine reads the English speech and the instruction writes the list of quotations in the sections Who spoke, Quotes with timestamps, Themes; every line comes from the transcript of the Voicemail.
Is there a limit to the length of the Voicemail?
One file of the Voicemail may be up to 30 minutes on the free plan; the free plan gives 3 files a day.
Is a link enough for the Voicemail?
Bring the file of the Voicemail to your own disk and upload it here; the engine returns the list of quotations with the time of every line.
Related pages
- The same task on voicemail to text meeting action items ruThe same task on another recording, with the same steps and the same sections.
- Interview to quotes with timestampsThe page of the task: the instruction that is written for it and an example of the answer.
- Transcribe audio to textWhat the service does with a file: the formats of the export, the limits and the plans.
- Voicemail to textWhere iPhone keeps the file, what it holds and what the engine does with it.
Sources
- SiPhone user guide: check the voicemail (read 2026-10-24)support.apple.com · checked
- SiPhone user guide: transcribe a voicemail (read 2026-10-24)support.apple.com · checked
- TTranscription service page (read 2026-10-25)transcrib.si · checked
- TPricing page (read 2026-10-25)transcrib.si · checked
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