I’ll put this out there in hopes that someone will create it and possibly give me a piece of the patent action.
I hate getting voice mails that are just a hang up. Why can’t the voice mail system, which is computer-based anyway, be smart enough to eliminate those messages that don’t include any speech? Can’t it detect the silence and the hang up sounds, and NOT waste my cellular airtime minutes — or my own time — by deleting that “message” and not bugging me? With all the voice-recognition telephony happening these days, it should be an easy function to detect whether a message actually has anyone speaking.
Oh, and just a little heads up to whomever called me and left a silent message, shuffled some stuff around on their speakerphone, then hung up — I never, ever answer any calls without a number on the Caller ID. I don’t need to talk to someone who wants to hide their identity, OK?
