Comments on: GotVoice: Visual Voicemail isn’t Perfect, But it’s Good Enough

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Bungee Connect - iPod Price Slash - HD-DVD - iPaper - Free Line Report 2.22.08 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:20:36 +0000

[...] stores all of your voicemails in a list containing MP3 files. This allows you to sort through voicemails, looking at who sent what and when, and listen to them [...]

By: iphone man

iphone man — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:07:19 +0000

I too have used YouMail.com and yep their interface is a bit better than GotVoice. I for one have an iPhone and really, really love visual voicemail. I can’t even imagine dealing with voicemail in any other way. In fact, I simply forwarded my office phone for good.

By: nhickmarin

nhickmarin — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:21:32 +0000

Very cool, nice one WWD.

http://www.itrush.com

By: J.B. Malik

J.B. Malik — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:57:10 +0000

I use Callwave too

(you can read my review here:
http://small-business-phone.com/?cat=9)

There is still a free trial, although after the trial it’s $14.95/mo. Still worth it, in my opinion. I listen in to my voicemails ‘live’, and if it’s someone I want to talk to, I can press a button and start talking to them. And with the voice to text feature, I can get the ‘gist’ of the email by reading the txt msg (versus having to listen to the whole dang thing).

Check it out, it’s worth the free trial, at least.

J.B. Malik
http://small-business-phone.com/?cat=9

By: Adam Teece

Adam Teece — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:07:13 +0000

I have been using YouMail.com for a while and am quite happy with them. I like their interface a bit more then the GotVoice interface.

By: Chris Garaffa

Chris Garaffa — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:32:40 +0000

I use CallWave. It actually replaces your carrier’s voicemail with their system. They offer online visual voicemail, as well as the option to receive a text message and/or email (with .wav attachment) of your voicemails. The text and email messages include a summary (which they call “gist”) of the voicemail. Most of the speech-to-text is OK – they seem to really have focused on catching phrases like “important”, “as soon as possible”, “emergency”, “let me know”, etc.
Overall I’ve been happy with it – and it’s free.
(There’s also a dashboard widget for Mac OS X.)

By: Paul Trent

Paul Trent — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:09:13 +0000

A lot of advanced voicemail providers are wising up to the fact that most consumers and businesses are going mobile. In the commercial sector especially it’s so easy to stay professional while on an iPhone or a Blackberry that there’s no need to do business anywhere else. I haven’t signed up for any of these stand-alone offerings because my advanced 1-800 (interestingly, named Gotvmail) has the similar “play it on mobile” feature that sends messages to your cell. These features often come free with vamil packages, which are a better deal for businesses. For consumers, however, this is a great service, especially since for the time being it has a free option.

By: The GotVoice Tech Blog. » Blog Archive » GotVoice Reviewed on GigaOm Network

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:51:40 +0000

[...] Wed Worker Daily does a nice write up of GotVoice this week. The article does an excellent job of explaining some of the difficulties of trying to develop a Voice-to-Text Platform. Rather than just complain about some features that are notoriously hard to accomplish, WWD tells the reader why they are hard, and focuses on the positives. One great line was, “If you get a lot of (voicemail) though, being able to avoid listening to all your messages in linear form saves lots of time.” [...]