I’m delighted to bring you the third part of the Future of Voicemail video series featuring Shawn Barber, Director of Product for Voice Messaging at global messaging provider, Acision.

To say Shawn is Mr Voicemail is to put it mildly. He lives and breathes the medium, although he was clear to point out that its no longer referred to as simply voicemail but instead, voice messaging. Which is good news. Because thats where Id like the medium to as well. Id like us to get away from the mail aspect (i.e. having to dial in to retrieve messages in sequence) and move to some kind of messaging-based facility. But what does the future look like? Well, Shawn set out some rather stimulating points in todays video including discussing the possibility of simply providing operators with the building blocks to create their own voice messaging systems to fit any consumer scenario. So if you want the mobile operator to recognise that youre driving and thus it should pipe the voice messages down to your car stereo, no problem. Or if you want to be called with my voice messages as a matter of priority, no problem.

Id dearly like to see mobile operators offering something like this something better than just the same-old-thing.

Shawn did a super job of answering my questions and Im sure youll enjoy his perspective on the future.

Thank you very much for taking the time, Shawn!

Here’s the video:

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Just a reminder, view the preceding episodes in the series here:

- Part 1, Olivier Sichel of Sofinnova Ventures
- Part 2, Tim Rea of ePlanet Ventures

Related posts:

1. Episode two of the Future of Voicemail Series is in the can!
2. The Future of Voicemail Video Series – first episode in the can!
3. The Future of Voicemail Video Series: Introduction