What's the difference between voicemail and an answering machine?

Both devices will answer a call and take a message. Not many answering machines are flexible enough to interact with the caller. A voice mail system can be used to play messages to the caller, relay the messages to different recipients, play information to the caller by the caller's choice, and send messages via email to different users. Think of the answering machine as the dumb recording box, and a voice mail system as the interactive record and playback device.

This Site Might Help You.

RE:

What's the difference between voicemail and an answering machine?

voice mail is an answering system that the phone company hosts on there side... so there is no equiptment at your location...

and answering machine is just a device that can record a message from callers while you are away...

the benefits of voice mail is that if you are on a call, callers will still be able to leave you a message... if you are on a call and only have an answering machine, either callers will only hear a busy signal - or the line will continue to ring for them (while you hear the call waiting tone)

other benefits of voice mail are that many phone companies are now offering additional features with the voice mail that you can subscribe from them - such as email notifications... speech to text transcriptions of your voice mail messages.. forwarding of messages, and many other useful features...

the benefit of an answering device would be cost (for land line phone providers) as most land line providers charge an additional monthly fee for voice mail... however, most VoIP or digital voice telephone service providers offer this service included in there calling package...

Do you need to purchase any further service/feature from your telephone company for the answering machine to work?

For the best answers, search on this site https://shorturl.im/aw08n

in rerecord you overite data while on erase u dnt overite but data is deleted.

answering machines are just that...a machine.