Does anyone know of any privacy-oriented voicemail clients for Android that transcribe messages?
(If this isn't the best place to post this, please let me know!)
I've looked for this off and on over the years and haven't found anything I really liked. The closest I came to it was Youmail. It isn't an open source app, which is a bummer, but it seems to be a (at least sort of) privacy respecting company. I remember reading their privacy policy at one point and not seeing anything terrible in it.
Thank you, the 20 transcriptions allowed per month is more than enough for me. It is unfortunate that it's not open at all, but it is what it is, I suppose.
If you have a homelab or vps you could try rolling your own with https://hub.docker.com/r/onerahmet/openai-whisper-asr-webservice for the transcription and a foss Tasker alternative for retreiving the voicemail when your dialler app posts a voicemail notification. If you don't have the capability to selfhost whisper, you'd probably have to sacrifice the illusion of privacy (your mobile carrier will always have access to any calls made over their network) and use a transcription service from google/microsoft/openai.
Asterisk https://www.asterisk.org/ might be worth a look too (i.e. selfhost your voicemails)
This is definitely the most privacy-oriented answer. I don't have a homelab, but thank you for the info! Maybe someday...
I do not. I just do the old school way of calling the voicemail box for my carrier and managing voicemail through there
That's far slower than I would like, and it doesn't allow a nice visual layout of all the messages in your inbox.