Google's Pixel phones will soon save transcripts of screened calls | Engadget Today

Google's Call Screen feature has been a boon to Pixel 3 owners wary of tedious telemarketing calls. Instead of taking your chances on an incoming 'Scam Likely' call, you can just get Google Assistant to answer for you. One of the major criticisms of the service, though, is that once the call is complete, the transcript of the conversation disappears. So unless you managed to grab a screenshot of the transcript, or were paying attention to the screen during the call, you'd have nothing to refer to later beyond a caller number. None of this is really conducive to fuss-free spam filtering. But Google has been paying attention to feedback, and it seems that Call Screen transcripts are on the way.

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[Stinky]

It works very well. The Call Screen feature has already allowed me to prepare for one pushy sales person making me feel more confident to do what I needed to do the next time they called.

[tsarstepan]

A couple of questions about this Google Assistant feature that bounce around the FCC wiretap laws. Does the Google Assistant openly state that the call is being recorded? I can see that the subsequent transcripts from a nondisclosed recorded phone call could bring forth a legal challenge against Google if not the person owning the Pixel.