Do anyone in the group have a Google Voice account? What are your thoughts/experiences? How long have you had it and have you had any invitation become available? How long did you have the account before the became available?
I just got one last Sat. and my have made the mistake of tiying it to my personal gmail account instead of a more general email account the the rest of the family can have access to. I had requested an invitation 12 weeks ago or so in anticipation of my daughter getting a cell phone. At the time I was not sure exactly what the service would do.
Now I know and it is rather nice. I'm able to do some rather sophisticated routing and screening of inbound phone calls. Inbound voice mails are transcribed and emailed to my gmail account. I can now receive inbound SMS messages that are forwarded to email. As for outbound calls I can go to to the web site type in a US or Canada number and specify which of my phones I'd like to make the call from, once I hit enter my phone rings, I pick up, and I can hear the other end start to ring. These are free as in beer, but likely not so much in privacy and personal data terms.
Oh and I choose the opption where I now have a new Google number for the inbound, I was able to match my area code and last 4 of my home number.
Rod
I have a personal voice account as well as the company having an account. I use my personal for when I am travelling and when I just don't feel like taking phone calls. With the mid-term elections coming up, I am sorely tempted to just pass my landline through there so that I don't get all of the annoying crap like '08 (probably doesn't help that my new home phone number used to belong to a local branch of a political party). I've been using this account for about 4 months.
On the corporate side, we use one account for our helpdesk - it transcribes all of the calls and auto-submits tickets for our software that way. We don't miss any more calls and the users get the amusement of reading how their calls get transcribed. We've been using this account for the last 2 months after using a pay service for the last year.
We don't have any complaints about the service level that we are getting - everything seems on the up-and-up.
I don't have any voice invites left currently.
Michael Haworth ESSM - PAS Technologies Inc. D: (816) 556-5157 M: (816) 585-1033
-----Original Message----- From: kclug-bounces@kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] On Behalf Of rod Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 5:14 PM To: KCLUG (E-mail) Subject: Google Voice
Do anyone in the group have a Google Voice account? What are your thoughts/experiences? How long have you had it and have you had any invitation become available? How long did you have the account before the became available?
I just got one last Sat. and my have made the mistake of tiying it to my personal gmail account instead of a more general email account the the rest of the family can have access to. I had requested an invitation 12 weeks ago or so in anticipation of my daughter getting a cell phone. At the time I was not sure exactly what the service would do.
Now I know and it is rather nice. I'm able to do some rather sophisticated routing and screening of inbound phone calls. Inbound voice mails are transcribed and emailed to my gmail account. I can now receive inbound SMS messages that are forwarded to email. As for outbound calls I can go to to the web site type in a US or Canada number and specify which of my phones I'd like to make the call from, once I hit enter my phone rings, I pick up, and I can hear the other end start to ring. These are free as in beer, but likely not so much in privacy and personal data terms.
Oh and I choose the opption where I now have a new Google number for the inbound, I was able to match my area code and last 4 of my home number.
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I do have quite a few Google Wave invites if there is anyone on the list that would like.
First come, first serve.
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I'm out of Google Voice invites as well, but I use Google Voice as my Cellphone voicemail, and love it. With any Andriod OS phone, you can play back messages on speaker without dialing anywhere, or read them in the google voice app. It even highlights the text word by word if you play the audio to show you how it transcribed word by word. It is rather amusing to see how badly we've learned to butcher the English language in speech.
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 07:31, Haworth, Michael A. Michael_Haworth@pas-technologies.com wrote:
I have a personal voice account as well as the company having an account. I use my personal for when I am travelling and when I just don't feel like taking phone calls. With the mid-term elections coming up, I am sorely tempted to just pass my landline through there so that I don't get all of the annoying crap like '08 (probably doesn't help that my new home phone number used to belong to a local branch of a political party). I've been using this account for about 4 months.
On the corporate side, we use one account for our helpdesk - it transcribes all of the calls and auto-submits tickets for our software that way. We don't miss any more calls and the users get the amusement of reading how their calls get transcribed. We've been using this account for the last 2 months after using a pay service for the last year.
We don't have any complaints about the service level that we are getting - everything seems on the up-and-up.
I don't have any voice invites left currently.
Michael Haworth ESSM - PAS Technologies Inc. D: (816) 556-5157 M: (816) 585-1033
-----Original Message----- From: kclug-bounces@kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] On Behalf Of rod Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 5:14 PM To: KCLUG (E-mail) Subject: Google Voice
Do anyone in the group have a Google Voice account? What are your thoughts/experiences? How long have you had it and have you had any invitation become available? How long did you have the account before the became available?
I just got one last Sat. and my have made the mistake of tiying it to my personal gmail account instead of a more general email account the the rest of the family can have access to. I had requested an invitation 12 weeks ago or so in anticipation of my daughter getting a cell phone. At the time I was not sure exactly what the service would do.
Now I know and it is rather nice. I'm able to do some rather sophisticated routing and screening of inbound phone calls. Inbound voice mails are transcribed and emailed to my gmail account. I can now receive inbound SMS messages that are forwarded to email. As for outbound calls I can go to to the web site type in a US or Canada number and specify which of my phones I'd like to make the call from, once I hit enter my phone rings, I pick up, and I can hear the other end start to ring. These are free as in beer, but likely not so much in privacy and personal data terms.
Oh and I choose the opption where I now have a new Google number for the inbound, I was able to match my area code and last 4 of my home number.
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I have two Google Voice invites left.
I use Google Voice as my voice mail for my cellphone and to ring my home and gizmo5 numbers.
On Jan 20, 2010 11:24 AM, "Billy Crook" billycrook@gmail.com wrote:
I'm out of Google Voice invites as well, but I use Google Voice as my Cellphone voicemail, and love it. With any Andriod OS phone, you can play back messages on speaker without dialing anywhere, or read them in the google voice app. It even highlights the text word by word if you play the audio to show you how it transcribed word by word. It is rather amusing to see how badly we've learned to butcher the English language in speech.
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 07:31, Haworth, Michael A. < Michael_Haworth@pas-technologies.com> wrote: > ...
Thanks, now I don't think I need the invitation, Google is going to transfer the voice account to a more family friendly gmail account. After describing the service to my brother in he was quite intrigued. I though I would send him one once I got an invite to share but didn't know how long that might take.
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Philip Dorr tagno25@gmail.com wrote:
I have two Google Voice invites left.
I use Google Voice as my voice mail for my cellphone and to ring my home and gizmo5 numbers.
On Jan 20, 2010 11:24 AM, "Billy Crook" billycrook@gmail.com wrote:
I'm out of Google Voice invites as well, but I use Google Voice as my Cellphone voicemail, and love it. With any Andriod OS phone, you can play back messages on speaker without dialing anywhere, or read them in the google voice app. It even highlights the text word by word if you play the audio to show you how it transcribed word by word. It is rather amusing to see how badly we've learned to butcher the English language in speech.
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 07:31, Haworth, Michael A. Michael_Haworth@pas-technologies.com wrote: > ...
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The time seems to be random. I git mine after two weeks of using it, but the account we use for our helpdesk hasn't gotten any yet.
Sent from my jailbroken iPhone
On Jan 20, 2010, at 11:47 AM, "rod" crimson.blue.2@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, now I don't think I need the invitation, Google is going to transfer the voice account to a more family friendly gmail account. After describing the service to my brother in he was quite intrigued. I though I would send him one once I got an invite to share but didn't know how long that might take.
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Philip Dorr tagno25@gmail.com wrote:
I have two Google Voice invites left.
I use Google Voice as my voice mail for my cellphone and to ring my home and gizmo5 numbers.
On Jan 20, 2010 11:24 AM, "Billy Crook" billycrook@gmail.com wrote:
I'm out of Google Voice invites as well, but I use Google Voice as my Cellphone voicemail, and love it. With any Andriod OS phone, you can play back messages on speaker without dialing anywhere, or read them in the google voice app. It even highlights the text word by word if you play the audio to show you how it transcribed word by word. It is rather amusing to see how badly we've learned to butcher the English language in speech.
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 07:31, Haworth, Michael A. Michael_Haworth@pas-technologies.com wrote: > ...
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I really like using Google Voice, I just wish it could send calls to a phone number+extension. But that feature still does not seem to be an option.
-Greg
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:14 PM, rod crimson.blue.2@gmail.com wrote:
Do anyone in the group have a Google Voice account? What are your thoughts/experiences? How long have you had it and have you had any invitation become available? How long did you have the account before the became available?
I just got one last Sat. and my have made the mistake of tiying it to my personal gmail account instead of a more general email account the the rest of the family can have access to. I had requested an invitation 12 weeks ago or so in anticipation of my daughter getting a cell phone. At the time I was not sure exactly what the service would do.
Now I know and it is rather nice. I'm able to do some rather sophisticated routing and screening of inbound phone calls. Inbound voice mails are transcribed and emailed to my gmail account. I can now receive inbound SMS messages that are forwarded to email. As for outbound calls I can go to to the web site type in a US or Canada number and specify which of my phones I'd like to make the call from, once I hit enter my phone rings, I pick up, and I can hear the other end start to ring. These are free as in beer, but likely not so much in privacy and personal data terms.
Oh and I choose the opption where I now have a new Google number for the inbound, I was able to match my area code and last 4 of my home number.
Rod _______________________________________________ KCLUG mailing list KCLUG@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
I use Google Voice, so I can put my number in public places (e.g. Facebook). I started using it when Google Voice was Grand Central. It's my way of dealing with poor cell phone coverage at home and not having a text messaging added on my cell phone plan. A quarter per text message is really painful. I really like it, because it's very convenient. I like seeing SMS text messages as email.
rod wrote:
Do anyone in the group have a Google Voice account? What are your thoughts/experiences? How long have you had it and have you had any invitation become available? How long did you have the account before the became available?
I just got one last Sat. and my have made the mistake of tiying it to my personal gmail account instead of a more general email account the the rest of the family can have access to. I had requested an invitation 12 weeks ago or so in anticipation of my daughter getting a cell phone. At the time I was not sure exactly what the service would do.
Now I know and it is rather nice. I'm able to do some rather sophisticated routing and screening of inbound phone calls. Inbound voice mails are transcribed and emailed to my gmail account. I can now receive inbound SMS messages that are forwarded to email. As for outbound calls I can go to to the web site type in a US or Canada number and specify which of my phones I'd like to make the call from, once I hit enter my phone rings, I pick up, and I can hear the other end start to ring. These are free as in beer, but likely not so much in privacy and personal data terms.
Oh and I choose the opption where I now have a new Google number for the inbound, I was able to match my area code and last 4 of my home number.
Rod
I've been using it as a kind of business number that I give to people that I don't want to have my personal number.
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