Reports suggest that Apple is working on a big update to Siri, which could give the virtual assistant a skill that’s truly fit for its title: taking phone calls for you. If you aren’t around, or even if just don’t want to talk, this feature would allow Siri to not just answer the call, but also utilize its smarts in speech recognition to transcribe the voicemail left by the caller into plain text. In order to process the speech, the voicemail data will be routed through Apple’s servers, just as every other thing you bark to Siri does.
It’s rumored that this new service through which your voicemails are transcribed and delivered will be called iCloud Voicemail. But transcription won’t be the only new trick coming to iCloud. If you let Siri pick up your call, it will be able to provide relevant contextual information as to why you weren’t able to pick up the phone, such as where you’re located and what you’re up to, if you choose to share that info.
