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typealias

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    Comment #18941654

    Last year I built an automated call screener using Google’s cloud speech APIs. Extremely effective, runs headless on a $5 VPS box by proxying calls through VoIP, but the added late…

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    Comment #18941552

    Depends if you’re on iOS or Android. iOS really only supports blacklisting with the exception of Do Not Disturb contact/favorite whitelisting.

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    Thanks! I think Google Voice has two lines in, so it’d return a busy tone when I’m in an active call with someone (one line for each person to do the call merging). >Would it possi…

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    Good question! I set my prompt to verify that they at least know my first or last name, so it’s pretty good at reducing false positives. For calls that do get filtered, I keep the …

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    I had the same problem a few months ago before I set up an automated virtual assistant to pre-screen calls[1]. It works with my existing phone number by forwarding all inbound call…

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