My life with Google Voice….So far!
So after a few days using Google voice, I have to say that I find it interesting and extremely useful!. If you haven’t yet heard about Google Voice visit their site here.
At first glance it seems interesting because you can have one phone number ring all of your phones. That is if you’re like me and have a home phone plus a cell phone plus a work phone… trying to give these numbers to all of my friends and keeping track of who has which numbers is just ridiculously hard to manage. With Google Voice I can give out one number and I get to decide who can reach on which of my other phone numbers and even when they can reach me directly and when they just get routed to voicemail. If I only want my friends to reach me on the weekends then I can set that up or even sending all cals to my work phone when I know I’ll be at my desk.
So as you can see this new offering from Google seems quite useful. However one of My favorite features is transcripts of voicemails! I can read my voicemail or listen to them if I choose. I can even download them. this seems perfect if you just want to setup a voicemail box say if you’re a podcaster or in radio and want to be able to play recorded messages on your show!
Above is a screencap of one of my voicemails from a telemarketer… yes I was stoked even to get a call from a telemarketer. It appears that the number was in someone’s database. It happens. But the good news is that you can block numbers like this one easily. My point for sharing that above image is to show you that the voice to text is still not perfect but still quite useful if you just want to scan messages quickly. THe grey text is where the software wasn’t sure if it got the word right or not. I could so have some reall fun with this! and I’m tempted to give out my phone number to everyone and ask for strange and creative messages… but I think i’m gonna think about that one for a bit…
Anyway… this isn’t a full review of the Google Voice service but I thought I just give a heads up on my experience of using it… Peace!
