# Fun wirh Google Voice Mail **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 24, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-wirh-google-voice-mail/653823 "2013-03-24T16:48:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-wirh-google-voice-mail/653823/1 "2013-03-24T16:48:04Z")
So my company switched over to GMail. Not bad, saves some cash and it works well. And on top of that, it adds a nice dose of comedy to my day. I am in IT and do on call. Our new mail system takes the voice messages, interprets them and forwards off the actual message along with a text version of the message. Below are some of Google interpretations. > [@](#): > > Hi, this is art syllable of another old phone number XXX-XXX and X bye have a nice day. She was made. So, yarn students. Yeah, I’m singing password. I don’t have a call back. Thanks, Hi Chuck, Thank you. Says Gmail. And > [@](#): > > Yes, Bob XXXX at north side, licenses, XXXX something’s happened to my email. I want to go to. If I get an email. I wanna Prayer. I had to print thing it comes up, but it says savings said a prayer. And as I see you after I save it didn’t use. If I don’t get the option to push for president, anywhere anymore anyways, so we can look at my computer. Thanks. > [@](#): > > She’s out of town right now with the on my thank you also have number 6, and number. 7 I believe number is 6 and number’s 7 fight down pretty the printers non responsive the bathroom moving. So 6 and 7 ohh damn i think you also purpose or not responding. Thank you. > [@](#): > > Hey, this is Tom demanded decide generate table games, XXX-XXXX. I need a **mail bomb** locked out of my table managers and if somebody could please call this number 40 and then help me access. XXX-XXXX. Thank you. I think I am going to create a book by selecting the best phrases and stringing them together into poems. Yeah, I’m singing password I need a mail bomb locked out of my table but it says savings said a prayer If I don’t get the option to push for president, anywhere anymore anyways She’s out of town right now with the on my thank you number’s 7 fight down pretty the bathroom moving Slee Note, I removed phone numbers and last names for the obvious reasons. Also note, no bombs were used in the creation of these voice mails. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-wirh-google-voice-mail/653823/2 "2013-03-24T18:00:39Z")
I have Google Voice Mail (got a Google phone number a few years back) and get those same kind of weird-ass messages that make no sense whatsoever. For me it is OK - I only give that phone number to businesses (not friends or family) so most of the messages are irrelevant and unimportant anyway - but still fun to try to figure out what the hell they really said. BTW, in case people were wondering, you can indeed go in and hear the original message - but fun to read the gobbldygook that comes in terms of translated message. Hmm…I wonder what it would look like if I called my own number and left a message in German…I might just give that a try! ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-wirh-google-voice-mail/653823/3 "2013-03-25T00:19:30Z")
Do you donate them to the “was this translation useful” thing? My translations are totally weird. Sometimes they pick words that are sort of related logically, but no where near what was said phonetically. They also throw in entire phrases that mean nothing and there is no where in the audio that they could have found the phrase. What really sucks is they get a telemarketer message dead on (instead of dumping it as a telemarketer). I think Google Voice Mail translation is some sort of weird alien experiment.