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Truecaller Assistant - Call Screening — Let your assistant answer for you

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Truecaller Assistant answers your calls and asks questions for you, detecting spam and letting you know if the call is worth answering. Save time and get that extra level of spam protection, so that nothing comes through.

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Nakul Kabra
Maker
Hello everyone! My name is Nakul and I lead Truecaller for iPhone. For the last 13 years, we’ve been helping our community of 300mn+ users to identify & block spam calls and now Truecaller Assistant takes it to a whole new level. This comes right after our recent revamp of Truecaller for iPhone which massively improves the ability of identifying spam calls on iPhone. Read more: https://www.producthunt.com/post... In today’s world, spammers have become quite sophisticated and the traditional ‘identify & block’ can fall a bit short. Spammers will keep calling using new numbers that are yet to be marked as Spam and we don’t want you to be fall prey to it. With Truecaller Assistant, you can choose your own AI assistant and let them take calls on your behalf so that you don’t even need to be bothered if the call isn’t important for you. You can always go back to the app and see the list of screened calls so that you know the context of each of these calls and choose to call back if you find it necessary. The hero feature of Truecaller Assistant is it’s Live Screening. With live screening, at first you see the caller’s name & reason for the call and you can keep the caller on hold and keep responding using predefined messages until you get a full context before choosing to pick up the call. This asynchronous way of responding to a live call can come very handy when you’re in situations where you cannot take the call. This is the just the first version of our new offering and we’ve a lot in store to bring out to you. If you’re in the US, please update to the latest version of Truecaller, buy a free trial and try out the feature. I’ll be looking forward to your feedback. Cheers!
Ryan Hoover
This is a great use case for text to speech / AI-powered voice bots.
Nakul Kabra
Maker
@rrhoover Absolutely! That’s the ambition and we want to build this for a bunch of languages/accents so that the assistant can listen & respond accurately to all calls. Give it a try!
Brittany Joiner {Britt the Builder}
Wow, this is amazing and im downloading it right now. When I was in Europe and using a eSim, i didn't have a phone number for a week and it was beautiful 😂 Question - will i be able to set it so that certain people can go straight to me and not through the assistant? ie, if my partner calls? Or will every incoming call go through the assistant?
Nakul Kabra
Maker
@britt_joiner very valid question. By default every call goes via assistant but you can disable it for your phonebook contacts. The option to disable screening for a specific contact is a great idea. We’ll do something about it 🙌
Brittany Joiner {Britt the Builder}
@trppr gotcha that makes sense! honestly for any phone book contact is totally fine - as long as i have the number saved, i probably don't need to screen it. just toggled off the setting for phonebook contacts. can't wait to use this!! if this works as well as i hope it will be well worth the $4.99 a month!!
Nakul Kabra
Maker
@britt_joiner do let me know your experience using this. This is just our v1 and we’ve bunch of stuff in store. I’ll be waiting to hear your feedback!
Riddhii Tabassiya
Amazing launch! Congrats
Nakul Kabra
Maker
@riddhii_tabassiya Thank you, Riddhii!
Raju PP
Very interesting and useful. Can't wait to try it out when it launches in India
Nakul Kabra
Maker
@rajupp thank you. We’re working on supporting more countries & languages, stay tuned!
Abrar Ahmad
One thing I hate about truecaller is they gather all of your contacts with names. And then they show that name to the other truecaller users if the number is not saved in contacts. So it's kind of giving me the name from the other's people contact.
Nakul Kabra
Maker
@abrardev99 hello Abrar, That’s a common misconception. We do not upload contacts with names. It’s against the rules of App Store & Play Store. Wrt Assistant, we need contacts permission so that we can allow the user to disable call screening for phonebook contacts. We also use it to temporarily create a contact, needed for Truecaller to show you an incoming call with a call reason. The temporary contact is automatically deleted at the end of the call. Hope this helps.
Anna Filou
@trppr interesting! Truecaller collects names when the call recipient chooses add that information to Truecaller, right? (And it knows your name from when you sign up, which it shows to others.) I don’t use it anymore, but back when I need I remember getting a call from a stranger and the name showed by Truecaller was something like “my love” or “honey”. I suppose that somebody thought they were adding someone to their contacts, when in fact they were adding their “name” to Truecaller 😅
Varun Krishnan
Congratulations @raphael_maimon @trppr and @alanmamedi. Can't wait to try it on my spam callers.
Nakul Kabra
Maker
@varun_krishnan1 thank you Varun!
Fares
Congratulations on the launch 🚀
Kireeti Varma
Amazing product! Congratulations! When can we get a hands-on? In which version can we experience it?
Nakul Kabra
Maker
@kireetivarma thanks Kireeti! If you’re in the US, you can update to latest version of Truecaller, buy a free trial and try it out. We’re working on adding support for more languages & countries!
Rohan Rashinkar
Looks really useful is this feature available for India.
Nakul Kabra
Maker
@rohanrashinkar thanks Rohan. This is currently available only in the US. We’re working on supporting more countries & languages.
Michael Anish
Can’t wait to try this!!
Nakul Kabra
Maker
@michaelanish if you’re in the US, buy the free trial and give it a try!
Gary
I like Truecaller
Nakul Kabra
Maker
@gary_miller4 Thanks Gary!
Yash
Wow, super interesting. I've been a Truecaller user for a while now. All the best!
Nakul Kabra
Maker
@yashthakker Thank you, Yash!
Anna Filou
Why is this only available in the US?? 😭 I’m so jealous of US citizens who can use this and Google Duplex. I feel really bad when picking up calls from strangers, and this would be super helpful to me.
Nakul Kabra
Maker
@anna_0x Hey Anna! It’s currently optimised best for telecom operators in the US. Moreover, it needs a lot more work on supporting new languages/accents which is what we’re working on and we’ll launch soon in other markets too.
Nakul Kabra
Maker
@trppr I understand your frustration though 🥲
Anna Filou
@trppr I’m sure adding new languages is a ton of work, but English would be fine for me~ (But, as you said, the accent plays a role too and there’s a lot of them in Europe.) I’m not sure what “optimised best for telecom operators in the US” means in practice though. Anyway, hope to see this launch in the EU sooner than later!
Nakul Kabra
Maker
@anna_0x hey Anna, Thanks for a great response! The feature depends on how calls are forwarded (Conditional Call Forwarding), how the Assistant "picks up" the call and how they are re-routed back to the user (if you want to talk to the caller) and all of this depends a lot on your telecom operator. If you can tell me which country/operator you're on and if you'd like to join our beta program, I can sign you up and try to enable the feature for you. It'll be great to get some feedback from you! Regards.
Anna Filou
@trppr thanks for explaining! That’d be awesome. I’m in Greece and my operator is Cosmote. I also have a Dutch vodafone number. You can reach me at hello [at] first name last name [dot] com.
Nakul Kabra
Maker
Thank you @kevin for hunting Truecaller Assistant!
Shushant Lakhyani
Congratulations on the launch!!!!
Nakul Kabra
Maker
@shushant_lakhyani Thank you, Shushant!
Ash Rahman 🎮
A helpful update for me as I no longer need to receive spam calls then cut halfway. Congrats on the launch!
Nakul Kabra
Maker
@ashrahman Thanks Ash! Do try it out if you are in the US and let me know your feedback!
Hasan Diwan
Does it work with Google Voice #s?
Nakul Kabra
Maker
@hasan_diwan hey Hasan, this currently doesn’t work with Google Voice calls.
Hasan Diwan
@trppr Is support on your roadmap?