I’m loving Google Voice. I have a Google voice number that I use. I rings my home, office, and mobile simultaneously.
Unanswered, the call goes to Google voicemail which transcribes and alerts me via text message. Love that! I’ve even replaced my mobile phone’s native voicemail service with Google’s.
If I feel ambitious and have unjustifiably high amounts of time to do configuration, I can even group those hundred of contacts into various groups to whom different rules apply, such as which of the 3 phones rings when group A calls vs group B. Translated: I can limit which calls actually ring home where the young ones answer every call from every Tom, Dick, and Harry, all of whom call while I’m resting. *sigh* That makes this a nice feature.
And once can make calls via the Google Voice web interface. That’s cool.
What’s even more cool is the new Firefox Add-on for Google Voice that I found and installed tonight. That lets me single-click on any phone number on screen to initialize a phone call. I configure which phone to call from, then when I click a phone number, it starts ringing me immediate! I pick up my line, and then it rings the other party immediately. Way, way effecient. Loving that!
The other new feature I love is “Do Not Disturb.” SOOO love that. Friggin phone won’t even ring after that’s activated. Calls go to vmail. Still testing to see if the transcribed vmails still arrive as text during Do Not Disturb, which would be cool.
Anyway, loving Google Voice!
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