Life & fun · December 26, 2017
Defeating Spam Callers with Speech Recognition and Call Forwarding
Every day at 11:00 AM my iPhone rings. With the “seamless” “magic” of Apple’s Continuity, the ringing quickly spreads to my personal MacBook, work MacBook, iPad, and Apple Watch. “This is your last warning regarding your car insurance…” I don’t own a car. I wouldn’t mind
Defeating Spam Callers with Speech Recognition and Call Forwarding launched on December 26, 2017 with 10 votes, #902 of 2,482 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.
In plain words
This product uses speech recognition and call forwarding to filter spam calls on Apple devices. It addresses the problem of repeated unwanted calls that ring across multiple devices simultaneously through Apple's Continuity feature. Rather than relying solely on caller ID blocking, the tool analyzes incoming calls using speech recognition to identify spam patterns and characteristics, then forwards or blocks them accordingly. It targets iPhone and Mac users frustrated by frequent spam calls interrupting their devices.
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From the sources
Every day at 11:00 AM my iPhone rings. With the “seamless” “magic” of Apple’s Continuity , the ringing quickly spreads to my personal MacBook, work MacBook, iPad, and Apple Watch. I don’t own a car. I wouldn’t mind if this happened once or twice a month, but I’m receiving upwards of two spam calls per day. It holds my devices hostage until I decline the call. I first tried the most obvious solution: caller ID-based blocking. Apple introduced CallKit in iOS 10, allowing apps to blacklist up to 2,000,000 numbers [1] . I downloaded the two most popular call blocking apps on the App Store to test the method’s efficacy: Truecaller and Mr. Number. However, neither could identify (much less block)…from andrewchidden.com
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