Google Voice

Dagney · 01-06-2010, 11:19 PM

I have two invites I'm willing to donate to a good cause. Let me know if you'd like one. Post here, or PM me with a valid Email addy I can send the invite to. First come first served. (Unless someone gives me a REALLY good story on why they should have it!)

(And if you have invites that you're willing to share, feel free to post in this thread so others can benefit from it!)

Tulip · 01-06-2010, 11:37 PM

I looked it up but still don't understand what Google voice and google wave are about. Can you explain them? Gotta be invited...ohhh...sounds so exclusive that I want to jump in and say "I WANT IT!!" But what to do with it? :p

Undertoad · 01-07-2010, 10:33 AM

Google Voice is very nice: control your voice phone calls completely, let them ring through to any number you like depending on who's calling, and all voicemail can appear in your mailbox as speech-to-text translated emails.

It's now my voicemail for my mobile phone, and I dig it, because I don't have to listen to most voicemails, I can read them. The translations aren't very good yet, but they're good enough.

Furthermore if there are people you know you will just let go through to voicemail, you give them your Google Voice number, and you get their message even though they never ring your phone.

lumberjim · 01-07-2010, 10:52 AM

I'd like to try that.

Undertoad · 01-07-2010, 10:54 AM

Invitation sent.

skysidhe · 01-07-2010, 11:05 AM

Google has text to speach too.

Undertoad · 01-07-2010, 11:10 AM

speech-to-text is harder!

skysidhe · 01-07-2010, 11:14 AM

yep

I don't want either.

I am kind of fixed in my technologies.I like to read text and listen to calls.

lumberjim · 01-07-2010, 11:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Invitation sent.

thanks

it lets you search for words within the number you get....

(484) 601-COCK

is available
should I?

glatt · 01-07-2010, 11:26 AM

Is it hard to set up? Does it cost anything? Is the Google voice number a real phone number? Does Google provide it? What area code does it have? The whole thing sounds so bizarre and foreign to me, but I like the idea of voice mails being converted to text.

lumberjim · 01-07-2010, 11:30 AM

it's giving me errors reserving a number. says call back later.

setting up my cell number to go to it's voice mail was no sweat though. gonna call myself now and test it.

lumberjim · 01-07-2010, 11:43 AM

oh wow.

it emailed me my message.... mistranslated, of course. but it has a link in the email and you can click it, and it will play. you don't even hafta call voicemail. ... then you can download it if you want.

Pie · 01-07-2010, 11:49 AM

I can has?

lumberjim · 01-07-2010, 11:57 AM

Specs that wants to poop on our store. Yes, it is my store.
Play message

can you play it?prolly not i guess
edit...maybe you can

dar512 · 01-07-2010, 11:59 AM

I could.

01-06-2010, 11:19 PM	#1
Dagney The Prodigal Brat Returneth Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: North Cackalacky Posts: 1,107	Google Voice I have two invites I'm willing to donate to a good cause. Let me know if you'd like one. Post here, or PM me with a valid Email addy I can send the invite to. First come first served. (Unless someone gives me a REALLY good story on why they should have it!) (And if you have invites that you're willing to share, feel free to post in this thread so others can benefit from it!) __________________ The Constitution gives every American the right to make a total fool out of himself. But that doesn't mean you need to.

01-07-2010, 10:52 AM	#4
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	I'd like to try that. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

01-07-2010, 11:30 AM	#11
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	it's giving me errors reserving a number. says call back later. setting up my cell number to go to it's voice mail was no sweat though. gonna call myself now and test it. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

01-07-2010, 11:43 AM	#12
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	oh wow. it emailed me my message.... mistranslated, of course. but it has a link in the email and you can click it, and it will play. you don't even hafta call voicemail. ... then you can download it if you want. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

01-07-2010, 11:49 AM	#13
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	I can has? __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

01-06-2010, 11:37 PM	#2
Tulip Professor Join Date: May 2008 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 1,293	I looked it up but still don't understand what Google voice and google wave are about. Can you explain them? Gotta be invited...ohhh...sounds so exclusive that I want to jump in and say "I WANT IT!!" But what to do with it? :p

01-07-2010, 10:33 AM	#3
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Google Voice is very nice: control your voice phone calls completely, let them ring through to any number you like depending on who's calling, and all voicemail can appear in your mailbox as speech-to-text translated emails. It's now my voicemail for my mobile phone, and I dig it, because I don't have to listen to most voicemails, I can read them. The translations aren't very good yet, but they're good enough. Furthermore if there are people you know you will just let go through to voicemail, you give them your Google Voice number, and you get their message even though they never ring your phone.

01-07-2010, 10:54 AM	#5
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Invitation sent.

01-07-2010, 11:05 AM	#6
skysidhe ~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,828	Google has text to speach too.

01-07-2010, 11:10 AM	#7
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	speech-to-text is harder!

01-07-2010, 11:14 AM	#8
skysidhe ~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,828	yep I don't want either. I am kind of fixed in my technologies.I like to read text and listen to calls.

01-07-2010, 11:26 AM	#10
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Is it hard to set up? Does it cost anything? Is the Google voice number a real phone number? Does Google provide it? What area code does it have? The whole thing sounds so bizarre and foreign to me, but I like the idea of voice mails being converted to text.

01-07-2010, 11:57 AM	#14
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	Specs that wants to poop on our store. Yes, it is my store. Play message can you play it?prolly not i guess edit...maybe you can __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

01-07-2010, 11:59 AM	#15
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	I could. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

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