I registered a new phone number today. My new phone number is a Google Voice number. What's my new phone number?
234-2xx-xxxx
Where xx-xxxx is my last name, which, if you don't know me, you can easily figure out from the URL of this web site. (To avoid phone number harvesters, please do not type the complete phone number in a reply on this blog.)
If you've called my cell phone in the last year you know that cell phone service is nearly non-existent at my house. You might try my cell phone, and then end up calling my home phone when my cell drops. But now if you call my Google Voice phone number, it will ring on both my cell phone and my home phone simultaneously. Obviously, if I'm at home I'll answer the home phone. Easy for you. Easy for me.
Also what's cool is if you leave voicemail on either my Google Voice phone number or my cell phone number, it'll be automatically transcribed and then both emailed to me and texted to my cell phone.
Please note that the 234 area code is some place in Ohio. If you receive a call from Ohio, there's a chance it's me. I might also be LeBron James, but more likely it's me.
Both my cell phone number and home phone number have not changed. You may continue to use them. However, if you prefer to use my Google Voice phone number, please have at it!
Pulled eFingers:
Louise 2010-01-27 00:15:52 US/Pacific
I like that it transcribes the message and sends you an email. The voice recognition is not perfect but it's about 85% accurate in my experience.
Lori 2010-01-27 08:11:13 US/Pacific
I have a google voice mail number too :-) I love the email transcription...
And international calls are supposed to be dirt-cheap, too. That is, if you can't find a hack, to set up a country-specific VoIP number and then somehow make a call from your G-Voice number to that international number and then place a call from that to your target number (within that country). Ho hum.