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Google Voice converts Voicemail to Text

Posted on 12. Mar, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon in News

Google Voice is incoming – and it could change the way you deal with your phone conversations forever.

 With Google Voice, you get one number to access all your phone numbers, so even if you change your home phone or mobile, you’ll still be contactable. Not only that, the software acts as a messaging centre, storing voicemail messages or redirecting calls to your mobile if you wish. And here’s the clever bit – those voice messages are converted to text, allowing you to browse them as easily as reading an email, give or take a few Google conversion errors.

Other features include the option to send and receive SMS messages, cheap international calls (which could put a serious dent into Skype’s profit margins), fast re-routing of calls for specific friends and relatives and a look that should be incredibly familiar to regular Gmail users.

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Tags: Google Voice, Skype, SMS, Voice-to-text, Voicemail