Tired of all those calls about your car’s non-existent warranty that’s about to run out? Google Voice is going to help its users to avoid spam calls.
The company is now going to flag suspected spam calls, Engadget reported.
Google Voice will now label calls that may not be legitimate as “suspected spam caller” and a large red exclamation point in a stop sign, according to a news release.
The rollout began on Thursday and may take up to 15 days for it to hit all devices.
Once a call comes in that has been deemed spam by Google’s advanced artificial intelligence, it will be labeled as such. Then, a user can mark the call as confirmed spam and any calls from that number will be automatically sent to voice mails. Call history for those numbers will be routed to a spam folder.
If a call is mistakenly labeled as spam, the user can override it by marking it as “not spam” and the label is not supposed to be used on that number going forward.
If you get a lot of calls from unknown numbers, you will have to change a setting on your phone to allow it to be categorized as spam. All you have to do is go to Settings>Security>Filter spam and mark it “off.” By turning off spam filtering it will then allow the calls to go through the AI to be categorized, Google said in a news release.
Otherwise, potential spam will go directly to the spam folder and to voicemail without showing the warning.
The AI being used for Google Voice is the same as is being used on Android for the phone app, The Verge reported.
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