New User Interface: The primary user interface for Google Voice is through your phone via an audio menu. All in all, Google may have unkilled the dreaded voicemail.įriend Settings: Google has added new settings that allow users to route calls from specific people straight to voicemail, or your mobile phone, etc, instead of having to state their name and then be forwarded accordingly. And transcription takes about 30 seconds to be seen in the system from the end of a voicemail. Users can add notes or tags to voicemails and each transcription details how confident Google is about the success of voice transcription Google Voice highlights word in lighter color that they are not confident were subscribed properly. All voicemails are transcribed easily saved into the system and searchable. Voicemail Transcription: Google also added a nifty transcription feature (which is using the same subscription service as Google 411) for voicemails. Google is using the existing Gateway technology (which is used by Google Chat) to power this feature. You can respond to those messages as well. Now, Google Voice will accept text messages and forward them on to your mobile phone. A problem with the original service – it didn’t allow text messaging, so you had to tell people your mobile number as well if you wanted to send and receive text messages with them. Text Messaging: Google wants people to use their Google Voice phone number exclusively (and in fact it’s the only way to use it properly). Some of the more useful and innovating new features (and see screenshots at end): Google’s added new features and plugged some big holes that limited the original service. GrandCentral will also remain solely a U.S. Users can purchase credit (much like Skype) to make international calls at rates far below what they normally pay.
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The service was free and is still going to be free. Some people, impatient to try out the new service, have been paying as much as $650 on Ebay for an account. Over the next several weeks Google will begin to let new people in. But starting Thursday existing accounts are being given the option of switching to the new service and gett access to the new features. The freeze isn’t being lifted yet (and we’ve heard there are tens of thousands of people on the wait list). Most people have never used the service, because Google froze new accounts after the acquisition. Here’s our quick and dirty guide to using the old GrandCentral. The basic idea around GrandCentral is “one phone number for all your phones, for life.” Grand Central gives you one phone number that can access all your numbers, whether they be cell, home, mobile, and work numbers the GrandCentral numbers stay the same, as many of these number change over the course of a user’s lifetime. Key new features have been added that make the service absolutely compelling (each is described below). Now, though, Google is ready to fully launch Grand Central/Google Voice. Like most Google acquisitions, the service has been rebuilt from the ground up, a lengthy process that has in the past taken an average of 16 months or so. The 21 month delay between acquisition and relaunch was, unfortunately, expected. Get ready for that to change as the service prepares for a public launch under a new product name: Google Voice.
Other than a few good natured jabs at their marketing gimmicks and coverage of outages, that is. GrandCentral, a phone management service that first launched in 2006 and was acquired by Google for $50+ million in 2007, hasn’t been in the news much lately.
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