[wplug] Google Voice

George Larson george.g.larson at gmail.com
Tue Jan 5 07:44:13 EST 2010


Added bonus for me is that when Google tries to guess my son's name, it
almost always comes up with 'demon'.  So I get the most hilarious messages
from the school...  ;-P

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 07:18:42AM -0500, George Larson wrote:
> > 2. Text message transcription:  I'm in love with this feature.  Somebody
> > calls me and I don't pick up.  Google takes a pretty good guess at what
> they
> > said and then sends the transcript via email or SMS.  So I ignore the
> kid's
> > call because I'm in a meeting, right?  I get a text within moments that
> > tells me if the call is "Can I go to whomever's house?" or something
> > demanding more immediate attention (e.g. "I'm locked out of the house")
>
> I can't agree more with you about this feature.  I gave my GV number
> to my realtor because it will ring at home, work and on my cell during
> certain hours.  However, getting her (sometimes frequent, usually
> stream-of-consciousness) voicemail was a pain until I started using
> this feature.  Now I can read the email while listening to the
> voicemail (which highlights the words being spoken in the text as you
> listen), and refer back to it later.  This is terribly useful to
> someone like me who has a hard time understanding voice on the phone.
>
> --
> Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
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