Google Voice
by Justin Garrison • 2009/03/24 • Beta, Funny • 1 Comment
Grand Central was purchase by Google and is Google Voice now. I am not going into what the service can do for you (that is what Google is for), but the cool thing is my account was eligible for a upgrade today so I click the “upgrade” button to see what was new.
Not a whole lot was new but I did get a chance to test out the transcriber on my voice mail. It was actually fun because just after I left myself a voice mail I got a text message with the transcribed voice mail as well as a email to a link to a mp3 to play the voice mail. Lets just say they need to work on it a little bit. Here is the message I left for myself.
Oh, I wonder if this works. Test, test, oompa loompa, supercalafragilisticexpealadocious, Shaun.
Here is the text I got:
all the i wonder if it’s a work test test hello michael super callus i just got a delicious john
On the plus side, it actually makes voice messages more fun! I mean who wouldn’t want to get a voice mail when it contains hilariously translated messages from your friends.
I tried this with one more voice mail but sadly I just got a error that said “Transcript not available”. I am not sure why, but I could not find a way to make it force a transcript which is disappointing.
Let me know if you have been able to use Google Voice in the comments. If I ever get invites I can send one your way if you ask for it.
Heard nothing but great things about this product but unfortunately I’m still on the waiting list. Can’t wait to try it out though whenever it becomes available.