Funny Voicemail Greetings - Examples, Scripts, & Audio Recordings!
4 min read
Jesse Di Lucca
INTRODUCTION
If you’ve read our popular post on professional voicemail greetings, you know the drill. Leave your name, number, and the reason for your call. While we provided a great deal of variation on how to create a professional voicemail greeting for your company or business, they can come off as dry, mundane, and lacking charm or personality. Professional voicemail greetings get the job done… and they’re safe. There is little risk of offending your caller or giving the wrong impression of you or your business. That said, if you’re looking for a way to show off your brilliant personality and contagious charisma, you might consider introducing humor into your greeting – a funny voicemail greeting for your personal and business voicemail can be a great way to to not only break the ice but also showcase a bit of who you are.
HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN FUNNY VOICEMAIL GREETING
Creating a funny voicemail greeting isn’t complicated, but you need to keep a few things in mind to ensure success. The following tips will help:
Be friendly and welcoming - let your company's personality shine!;
Have a clear voice, speak at a slow to moderate pace, minimize background noise;
Ensure the greeting is human and approachable;
Keep the greeting short and informative;
Ensure the greeting doesn’t sound robotic or unnatural;
Show your gratitude for the call by saying thank you;
Manage expectations by clearly stating when the client can expect a callback.
Record Your Own Greeting
Simply speak into your phone or computer while recording a greeting with your business phone service. If you need to create your own audio file, the voice memo app on your phone should do fine.
Text-To Speech Technology
The best text-to-speech voices don't sound robotic at all. Do a "text to speech" search in Google to explore your options. Type in your script and presto! You'll get an instant greeting with a natural sounding voice. You can select from a broad spectrum of male & female voices with any local or foreign accent you choose. LinkedPhone offers text-to-speech built right into our software. It's super popular and our users love it!
Hire Professional Voice-Over Talent
If you're looking to go all out to give the best possible first impression to your customers, hire a professional voice actor. Our customers love the voices available on Fiverr, a website that matches businesses with creative talent. You can get a professional recording done for as little as $5. If you're looking for a high-end product, check out The Voice Realmwhich offers the best voice talent on the planet. The quality is astounding.
FUNNY VOICEMAIL GREETINGS FOR YOUR PERSONAL CELL PHONE
You have a lot more freedom to showcase your unique personality and humor with your personal voicemail greeting. Again, be careful that a prospective employer or potential business deal doesn’t fall through because they were turned off by your greeting. Distasteful greetings can backfire, even for personal calls. Keep it authentic yet witty.
There are lots of great free tools online to create and personalize your own unique funny voicemail message. For example, for the funny greetings below, we simply pasted our text into Text to Speech Robotand created an audio file. This website provides lots of voices and variations to choose from. Another great website is TTSMP3 – also free with lots of great voices to choose from. When working with audio files, it’s best to work with MP3 files since they are widely used and well compressed. To convert a .wav file to a .mp3 file, you can use a plethora of free services like Cloud Convert.
Hello! Unfortunately my human user is not very bright and doesn’t know how to answer calls. My name is Amanda AI and I am here to assist you. Please leave a message and I’ll ensure he receives it. Thank you.
https://linkedphone.com/wp-content/uploads/AI-Siri-Funny-Voicemail-Greeting.mp3
Hello. If you are a telemarketer please hang up now. I assure you my human does not need cheap pharmaceutical medication. I am capable of transcribing messages so please leave one for my human to read when she’s free. Thank you.https://linkedphone.com/wp-content/uploads/Telemarketer-Funny-Voicemail-Greeting.mp3
For the demonic possession and the “trapped in another dimension” voicemail messages below, we used Voice Changer. Simply upload an MP3 file of a recording with your own natural voice and transform it from a human voice to a robot voice, alien voice, ghost voice, chipmunk voice, demonic voice, or cartoon voices. It’s fun and free!
Greetings. I can’t come to the phone right now. I’ve been possessed by a demonic entity. Please leave a message and I’ll get back to you as soon as my exorcism is complete.
https://linkedphone.com/wp-content/uploads/Demonic-Possession-Funny-Voicemail-Greeting.mp3
Thanks for your telephone call. You are my lifeline. I am trapped in another dimension. Please leave me a message and I’ll use it as a beacon to find my way out. Thank you.
https://linkedphone.com/wp-content/uploads/Trapped-in-Other-World-Funny-Voicemail-Greetings.mp3
You can also use Voice Changer to simulate different environments, like being an astronaut on the moon or scuba diving!
Thank you for calling. I’m on the moon at the moment and can’t get to my phone. Please leave a message and I’ll get back to you as soon as I return to Earth.
https://linkedphone.com/wp-content/uploads/Astronaut-on-Moon-Funny-Voicemail-Greeting.mp3
Sorry I can’t pick up my phone. I’m scuba diving at the Great Barrier Reef and don’t want my phone to get wet! Leave a message and I’ll get back to you as soon as I come up for air. Thanks mate!
https://linkedphone.com/wp-content/uploads/Scuba-Diver-Funny-Voicemail-Greeting.mp3
FUNNY VOICEMAIL GREETINGS FOR YOUR COMPANY OR BUSINESS
A phone call to your business is often the first encounter your customers and prospects have with your company. A funny voicemail greeting can be a great way to leave a good first impression and put a smile on your caller’s face. Funny voicemail greetings can take the edge off of business relationships and make them more human. However, it’s important to be careful here. You don’t want to offend your caller or paint your business as an unprofessional operation. You must decide what’s works for both you personally and for your company. Keep it tasteful and stay away from humor that isn’t appropriate for your business! If you’re unsure, you should talk to someone at your company before going live.
