If Google Search the Web revolution, and revolution Gmail e-mail service for free, then one thing is for sure: Google Voice, launched Thursday, will use the phone revolution. Google Voice will unify the numbers of your phone, change the voice message into text that can be read (transcribe), telemarketer blocking and improve the message text into a communications class. And that’s just a new beginning.
History GrandCentral
Google Voice was born in 2005 as GrandCentral. GrandCentral own, at the time, quite revolutionary.
GrandCentral intend to rush to have more than one phone number (home, office, mobile phone, dst), among others: should check some of the answerer machine (answering machine) that is different. Missed call when calling other people on your phone in your home (or vice versa). Must send an e-mail in the office that says, “Day 17 Thursday hours until 20:30, my mobile phone. During the weekend, to phone home,” not to mention every time you change haurs phone number when you change job or move house. GrandCentral solution is to provide you with a single phone number the new number in the area that you can select. When someone call your number-union, all your phone will ring at the same time.
No more people search for your presence with different telephone numbers, no matter where you are, uni-number you will find you. And all voice mail messages will be included in a single voice mail box, in the Web. (You can also call to your voice mail box as usual).
Through the Web, you can play back your messages or even download them as audio files for archived. You can even ask to be notified via e-mail if you have new voice mail. But wait, there are many more! Each time you answer a call while the caller still hears ringing call, you hear a message offering 4 ways to handle the call: “Press 1 to accept, 2 to be sent to voice mail, 3 while listening to voice mail, or 4 to accept and record calls. ” If you press 3, the call will be diverted to the voice mail, but you can ‘steal heard’. If you feel the call is important, you can press * (star) to receive the call. This simple feature to save time, save cellular minutes and, in some cases, prevent interpersonal conflict.
GrandCentral also lets you record a voice mail greeting for the different people of different: ” for your girlfriend, or “Hello, Bos! What I’m in the company I make money!” to your office.
You can also specify which phone rings for certain people. (In fact, for people who are really frustrating, you can ask for a GrandCentral with notice, “the number you called is not registered”).
Also cool: Whenever the call, you can press * (star) to make all your phone rings again, so you can move in a phone call. For example, if you want to leave home, you can move the call from home phone number to your mobile phone.
GrandCentral also provide a filter telemarketing, call blocking off-hour ( “I do not have a BlackBerry device weekend”) and myriad other functions. For those with a complicated life, GrandCentral is like fresh air. It’s like a secret power that is not owned by others.
Google’s entrance
Then, in 2007, Google acquired GrandCentral. Google stop receiving new members, stop the development (or at least look like it) and seems to forget GrandCentral Samasekali. The early users, several hundred thousand members, can still use the features of GrandCentral. But while time passed, their spirit fade. In January, Salon.com writing editorial entitled, “The Last Exit GrandCentral, Please Turn off the lights.”
But in fact, who laughed a laugh of the most happy. Google secretly continued to develop GrandCentral. Starting Thursday, GrandCentral users can upgrade to Google Voice. And in some sunday, after debugging is complete, Google will open the Google Voice service to all people.
Google Voice
Google Voice will appear as a web site clean and re-designed like an in-box, such as Gmail. Google Voice retain all the original features of GrandCentral – but more important, 4 offers a revolutionary new features.
Recording voice mail for free: Start now, you do not need to listen to your messages in succession, in fact, you do not need to listen to your messages. In seconds, all the recorded voice mail will be changed into a written text, which can be displayed as an e-mail or SMS.
This is very unusual. This means that from now on you can perform searches, sorting, storage, forward, and copy-paste messages to voice mail.
No man role here; all done by software. As a result, records are often not perfect. For example, software, Google does not seem to recognize the signs read. ( “What is michelle ohhh I want cuman ngasih know last night of fun and happy to see you can look later I phone again bye bye”)
Of course there are recording errors; people are hard of hearing via telephone conversation, let alone a computer. But pintarnya, Google Voice Web site will display the words that are not believed to be more accurate pale (gray young). Fortunately, Google Voice is usually successful in record numbers – phone numbers, hours, arrival, address. And the rest is still accurate enough to diterka meaning.
Companies such as PhoneTag, Callwave, and Spinvox actually also provides voice mail recording, complete with punctuation. Good, but paid. Meanwhile, Google Voice is free.
Conference call free: No need to pay for the conference call, a dial-in number or a special work especial access code. You just let your colleagues to call at certain hours GrandCentral – and abrakadabra! You can berkonferensi with them. Without additional charge.
International calls are very cheap: If you call your Google Voice number from one of your phone, you will have the option to call abroad with the rate even lower than Skype (and much cheaper rates from the mobile phone operator): 2 cents USD per minute to France or China, 3 cents USD per minute to Chile or the Czech Republic. Mantap.
Organization SMS: Google Voice last feature is the most steady. GrandCentral services that are not too long with an SMS message is sent to the uni-number you. In fact, GrandCentral will ignore them. Text messages are not saved by GrandCentral.
Google Voice doing the right thing: a text message will be sent to your phone anywhere you want – even some of the phone at the same time.
Mantapnya and more, Google will collect Voice your text message inbox in the web, just like e-mail. You can mengarsipkan them, find messages in them and for the first time in the history of mobile phone, save the message forever. This message will no longer need to be deleted due to your mobile phone completeness.
You can also reply to SMS messages with a click, the reply form of a phone call or text message; exchange of your message will be displayed as a conversation / chat.
Google Voice also eliminate some things from the preceding cause. You can, if you like, turn off the option “press 1, press 2, dst,” so that when the phone rings, you can simply start talking and lifting. Google also has Google-style integration, for example, the Gmail address book and Google Voice you will be together.
Disadvantages? Of course there is. This service is very much the uni-number available, but for now this can only be used in the United States alone, not itupun all over the country. And consequences of technology deringkan-all-the-phone-at the same time, sometimes you get a snippet of the error message in Google Voice phone answerer machine that you do not lift. (Solution: make sure your voicemail greeting is longer than 15 seconds). And of course, you must learn all these features.
Still, you never can imagine how the previous life you will change when you have only one phone number, recording the voice mail and text messages that do not need to be deleted on all phones. Suddenly, your communication is not only unified, but also unified anywhere – on the phone, on the Web and in e-mail. And all for free – even free advertising.
Of course there will be a competitor who fell; dismal fate companies that sell services recording voice mail or conference call services. But, that’s life. Occasionally a revolution is good for all of us.
Unfortunately, Google Voice service is only available in the U.S., and only mem-forward calls to U.S. phone numbers only
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