It's pretty brilliant stuff. Don't think of it as a phone service, a la Skype. Think of it as a manager for all your telephoney. For example, you no longer have to worry about phone number portability; give out your Google voice number, and route it wherever you wish. Change carriers? Change numbers? Doesn't matter. Use it to cover your calls; it will, for example, go into Do Not Disturb mode or announce callers and let you listen as they leave a message before you decide to pick up. Even better: it runs voice mails through voice recognition and emails and/or txts the results to you. This is as bad as most voice recognition, but surprisingly effective: if you know who's calling and SOME of what they are saying you generally have a good idea about what's going on.
Maybe the most fun, though, is that it allows you to handle SMS/TXTing from your web browser. Recommended. cjf Christopher J. Feola President, nextPression Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cjfeola -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 3:00 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group; SFx Discuss Subject: [FRIAM] Google Voice I just got my invite to google voice, and wondered about the second option: get a new google number that rings all your phones. Does anyone have any experience with this? Recommendations? ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
