I think Google has stopped its telephone service. It got enough samples of voices to train its systems and needs no more.
It's fairly easy to turn a phone that supports voice mail and caller ID into a call blocker. - Have the phone answer on the first ring. - Record your message saying that this is a screening and voice mail system. Instruct people to introduce themselves. Tell them that if no one answers, they should continue with their message. - When the phone rings, look at the screen to see who's calling and listen to the self-introduction. Then decide if you want to answer. Virtually all spam callers will either hang up before identifying themselves or identify themselves in such a way that you know not to answer. -- Russ On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 7:46 AM glen <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > You should be able to forward to your landline from a virtual number like > Google Voice. Then only give out your virtual number. You should be able to > pick up your landline and Google will talk to you with a phone menu of > options. > > Of course, that doesn't solve people getting your landline number from a > phone book ... do people still use phone books? > > On 4/19/23 07:17, Barry MacKichan wrote: > > I like Frank’s solution, but I’m also interested in a solution for our > land line. The other option for the land line is to cancel it entirely, but > about six weeks ago I got a call from a friend who looked us up when he was > in Santa Fe, which is when he found out we had moved. He found our land > line number and I just happened to be around when his call came in, and his > caller id was announced by voice bot that lives in our land line. We might > not have reconnected had I discontinued the land line. TBH, though, I had > been trying to get his number — we were both thinking about the upcoming > 60th anniversary of our canoe trip to York Factory on Hudson’s Bay. > > > > -- > ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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