- A new Take a Message feature has arrived in the latest beta version of the Pixel phone app
- This allows you to record personalized voice messages.
- It makes the message-leaving experience much more personalized than with the current Google Assistant greeting.
Take a Message is one of the newest Google Pixel features, launching with the Google Pixel 10 series last year, but this AI-powered voicemail service is about to get better.
Taking a Message, which enables on-device voicemail with real-time transcriptions, so far does not allow you to record a personalized greeting. Instead, Google Assistant will greet the caller with a generic, robotic greeting.
But Android Authority discovered that one of its phones running Google Phone version 217.0.895016164-publicbeta-pixel now offers the option to record a custom message.
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Record multiple greetings and set up one
A new banner in the phone app alerted them to the capability and they could then record a message via Settings > Receive a message > Manage greetings.
Interestingly, you can record and save several different greetings even though you can only set one as active, but Android Authority has seen code snippets that suggest you could one day assign specific greetings to specific contacts.
For now, however, being able to record greetings is a big improvement. If you have a Google Pixel 6 or later and are running the latest beta version of the phone app, you may see the feature there and hopefully it will roll out to a stable version soon.
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