Google Voice - Not FTL

google.com/voice


Maybe I was too hard on Google Voice. This thing is actually pretty sweet. For one thing I didn't realize how handy having all of your voice mails and SMS messages presented to you like an inbox for email. If my phone, or when my phone dies I can still get my messages and voicemails.


But the best feature I've found so far is it transcribes your voicemails, and emails them you! Thats right, you get an email with the voicemail typed out and it's pretty accurate. It's impossible to make a speech-to-text engine work flawlessly, but it's pretty close. I would have paid like $5 extra to Verizon to have this added if they offered it.

So Google Voice is pretty handy, I wish it was the solution to the voice plan problem but I don't think it's quite there yet. After they realize what their users are really looking for, by reading their forums which is full of requests for VoiP, they'll come around. Skype said forever ago that a Blackberry client was coming out in May. Well May passed and they never said another word about it, so Skype is out. Maybe I should just jump ship and go for an Android phone.