I requested an invite for Google Voice, is anyone using it yet? Likes? Dislikes?
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I've been using it since before google bought it. I couldn't live without it. Some of my favorite features:
My biggest complaint is lack of integration with the iPhone, but that's a whole other story.
It's pretty handy. I've had it since it was Grand Central, but really never used it till Google acquired it. One phone number and voicemail transcription. I'm looking forward to more integration with Gizmo5 now that Google bought them.
I'm really hoping that they'll redo the Gizmo5 softphone so it works better with Google Voice. Then you could just use Google Voice credits to make phone calls with the softphone instead of having to buy separate Gizmo5 credits. I'm also hoping Google will make use of the SIP trunking Gizmo5 was capable of. Then I can see hooking up Google Voice to a PBX for corporate use.
The Voice app for the Blackberry works well.
I'm pretty sure my next phone will be Android based and I figure that should work really well too and hopefully natively supported.
The only thing I don't currently like is it has to be linked to a @gmail.com addy and isn't currently available for Google Apps customers. That's a minor beef though.
I would be all over it if Google provided SIP Trunks. That would make it very easy to connect our Asterisk PBX to Google Voice and to use them for our outboud/inbound calling. There are some very exciting things going on in the VOIP space.
Have you guys heard of http://cloudvox.com/. I haven't tried it yet, but it seems like a really awesome interface to providing VOIP functionality to your applications. It is worth checking out. When I have some time I am going to check it out.
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I've been using Google Voice for a few months. The voice to text transcription is the key for me. Especially when someone leaves a phone number, it's great to just be able to click to call on your cell phone. There are some funny transcriptions though see here . I'd also love it if they would provide SIP trunks.
On the down side it's a bit of a pain to make outbound calls if you want your new google phone number tied to the call. The webapp on the iphone isn't terrible but it's not as smooth as a native app (apple needs to stop being such tyrants). It was also a little bit painful to propagate the new number out to folks.
I haven't used cloudvox.com but it does look interesting. A good friend of mine is CEO at StarPound . They are doing some neat stuff with Asterisk and business process management.
I have signed up with the service and experimented with it but I find it missing a major feature. I would like to be able control the outbound Caller ID and phone number. My goal is to create one identity when I call out so that I can rout all the calls back to me the way I want. My cell doesn't work well at home so if i call people from it and they call back I have to hang up and call them back on a non -cell line.
I requested access months ago, and then did it again about a month ago. I still have no access.
Thomas F. Lebens
Tom, are you using a Gmail account when you are requesting it?
I used a Gmail account to request mine, still haven't heard anything back...
I agree it's less than ideal. However you can call your google voice number and then initate a call from there. You can also initiate calls from the website and it will call the phone you designate and when you ansewr start calling the destination.
Friends that I send txt's to I just give my real number because from my iPhone it's not easy enough to send txt's from my google voice number.
If you still don't have an account let me know and I can send you an invite.
that would be totally cool...thanks.
That would be really appreciated. Use tflebens@gmail.com if it's not any trouble for you. Thank you!
Thomas,
I'm out of invites. I'm sure others on the site have invites though.
Tom, i just sent you an invite to that email. Enjoy!