Re: how to export voice messages to media

bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:

On 2/20/25 07:48, bad sector wrote:

 
I want to save some received voice messages to a usb stick; how to do?
Are these plain mp3's in there somewhere?  TIA.

 
more adendum, apologies but I'm being given details in very piecemeal
fashion.
 
It seems that the voice messages were sent by a 7 year old child trained
just enough to use his (dead) father's phone in an emergency, so the
child sent a few messages to his mother via facebook messenger. These
messages are stil listenable on that phone but I need to save them out
before they end up in /dev/null.

There would be no "voicemails" to export from the FROM from since that
is not where the voicemails would exist.  You would need a recording
option in the cellular account, but I don't recall any that record on
every call, only on those where the phone user elects to record a
conversation.

In another message, you said you want to record voicemails sent FROM the
[kid's] phone.  The only voicemails the callee (the kid) has access to
are those in his phone's cellular account where the voicemail was left
TO the kid FROM the caller.

This is no different than with an answering machine.  The audio is at
the callee's end (the kid), not at the caller's end (whoever called the
kid). 

Does the cellular account the kid is using have a web interface to that
account?  Might have an option there to export voicemail.  Else, a lot
depends on which phone/voicemail app the kid's phone is using.  Open the
voicemail app on the phone, select (tap and hold) the voicemail you want
to save, and select Save, Export, Archive, or Share from the menu, or
click a 3-button menu to get to those options.  Navigation and what
options are available depend on the phone and voicemail app.

Someone using your phone, and your voicemail app, would better know or
test what works, but they'd need to know your phone and model.  Saving
voicemail is done at the end that received the call where the caller
left a message.  The caller won't have a copy of the voicemail, but they
could record their call.

A search, like https://www.google.com/search?q=android+voicemail+export,
finds potential help articles, like:

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-permanently-save-voicemails-in-ios-and-android/

but you might get better focused answers by adding the make and model of
phone, and which app is used for voicemail.  By ancient 5-year old phone
with its ancient Android 8 with its bundled apps don't have save or
export options on voicemail, so whether you have those options probably
depends on which Android version and/or on the phone/voicemail app, or
perhaps both.

In most cases, voicemail is not stored on the phone, but at the cellular
provider's service, and why I mentioned you should check if there are
export or save options using the web client to the account.  Alas, seems
MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) are lacking many of such
features, part of the loss of features in the cost saving of using an
MVNO.  Tracfone, for example, is an MVNO.