This week, I’d like to talk about a Google Voice feature some of you may not have heard about: custom greetings. With custom greetings, you’re able to record personalized voicemail greetings that only play to a specific group of people or to an individ…
I spend a lot of time in Gmail and love how Google Voice email notifications let me see voicemails in my email inbox. I can scan the transcript quickly, and when I want to hear the voicemail, it is just a click away on my computer.However, something a…
With Google Voice, you receive SMS messages on your phones AND in your Google Voice inbox, which means you can send SMS replies from either from your mobile phone or your computer. Today, we’re going one step further by allowing you to get text messag…
A few days ago, I decided to spend some quality time poking around the Google Voice Settings page. I’m glad I did, because I found a Voice feature I never knew existed! It’s the “ring schedule” feature. I’d never thought about setting up a preset sched…
Google App Engine is a product where developers can create and host web applications on Google infrastructure. Over on the App Engine team, we’ve noticed that there are lots of cool chat bots for things like translation or just for fun, but up until t…
Google App Engine is a product where developers can create and host web applications on Google infrastructure. Over on the App Engine team, we’ve noticed that there are lots of cool chat bots for things like translation or just for fun, but up until t…
In our last post, Heather learned how to make calls through the Google Voice homepage. Today, I want to explore why someone would link multiple phones to their Google Voice number.After choosing your Google Voice number, you’re asked to add at least on…
Hi all, we wanted to share some thoughts, tricks and tips around our Gmail video chat feature. Our first video chat tip is around making the call window bigger on your screen. When a video chat first starts, it is in the small chat window, and you see …
Hi all, we wanted to share some thoughts, tricks and tips around our Gmail video chat feature. Our first video chat tip is around making the call window bigger on your screen. When a video chat first starts, it is in the small chat window, and you see …
In addition to making free long distance calls within the continental US, you can now call Canada for free through Google Voice. We offered this feature in GrandCentral previously, and in an effort to provide as many useful features as we can for free,…
In our last post, Carol and I signed up for our Google Voice numbers, and read the Google Voice Getting Started Guide for information. Today, I’d like to share my first experience with the Google Voice website and the “Click to call” feature. After set…
Hi there! Heather and I work at Google, but are new to Google Voice. Over the next couple months, we’ll be exploring this service and sharing our experiences on the Google Voice blog. We hope that by seeing the service through the eyes of a new user, o…
It is hard enough to keep in touch with family and friends, but imagine being half-way around the world in a place like Iraq with limited access to telephones…or having to move and change your phone number every couple years. The military lifestyle …
Want to share your new Google number with family, friends and co-workers? To help spread the word (or should we say, the number), get your Google number printed on cards that you can hand out. There are three design options to choose from, so you can …
Thanks to some great work by the Google Mobile team, we now have a Google Voice mobile app for Blackberry and Android-powered phones. The mobile application makes using Google Voice with your cell phone simpler by letting you place calls and send SMS …