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Google voice international calls1/13/2024 It transcribes every voice message into text and lists them on a page where you can read them all. The transcription is the best new feature. New users will be allowed to access the service within the “next few weeks.” They’ll have to log into their existing Grand Central account and then follow directions for migration to the new service. The new service will be rolled out to existing users tomorrow (Thursday). Google’s dashboard provides the entire text of messages, and its search bar lets me search it all. With my existing service, I also can’t skim through the messages easily to pinpoint that one relevant place where the person gives me their phone number so I can call them back. I must have it! Why? Well, I’m tired of plowing through my voice messages and having no way to skip past ones I don’t care about. But co-founder Vincent Paquet showed me the latest upgrade yesterday, and it’s a no-brainer. However, after I signed up, it wasn’t quite useful enough for me to become a permanent convert. So far, the service has been limited to a “few hundred thousand users” - those lucky enough to have signed up with the service before it was closed in 2007 in order to ready it for mass usage. But Google Voice might convince you to make that step. The service was already pretty useful - that is, if you didn’t mind adopting yet another phone number (the new number was the biggest trip-up for people all of us already have a phone number, and most would rather not have to start giving out another). And you can have your wife’s calls go through to your work phone. You can choose to have all your mother’s calls go through to your home line and ignore them at work. So you can give out that number, and have it directed to your home phone when you like, without ever giving out your home number. That number can then reach you everywhere, on all of your phones - with you controlling exactly who can reach you when and where. Core to that was to give you a single number. The service’s stated goal was to make your phone life as simple as possible. To refresh your memory, Google acquired the service when it bought startup Grand Central in 2007.
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