- A new Take a Message feature has arrived in the latest Pixel phone app beta
- This allows you to record custom voicemails
- It makes the message experience much more personal than with the current Google Assistant greeting
Take a Message is one of the newer Google Pixel features that launched with the Google Pixel 10 series last year, but this AI-powered voicemail service keeps getting better.
Take a Message — which allows for on-device voicemail with real-time transcriptions — doesn’t yet allow you to record a custom greeting. Instead, Google Assistant will greet the caller with a generic and robotic greeting.
But Android Authority has found that one of its phones running Google Phone version 217.0.895016164-publicbeta-pixel now offers the ability to record a custom message.
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Record multiple greetings and set one
A new banner on the Phone app alerted them to the option, and then they were able to record a message via Settings > Take a Message > Manage Greetings.
Interestingly, you can actually record and save multiple different greetings, although you can only set one as active, but Android Authority has seen code snippets that suggest you might one day be able to assign specific greetings to specific contacts.
For now though, being able to record greetings is a big upgrade. If you have a Google Pixel 6 or newer and you’re running the latest Phone app beta, you may be able to see the feature there, and hopefully it will be rolled out to a stable release soon.
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