Got my Google Voice acceptance last night
I’ve been waiting by my inbox for weeks for my Google Voice acceptance email to arrive and finally, late yesterday it arrived! It reminded me of all the nerve wrecking days waiting for the mailman to arrive so I could see if I got accepted to any of the colleges I applied for. Argh! So much stress!
I won’t go into much review/detail of Google Voice right now as I’ve had it for less than 24 hours, but I did want to mention a small problems I ran into while testing it out last night. I was wanting to test out the voicemail transcription feature and left myself a voicemail at around 9:40pm last night. According to Google Voice I should’ve received an email letting me know of I had a new voicemai plus the transcription would be included. I waited about 20 minutes with no email nor any listing of the voicemail in my Google Voice dashboard. So I then left myself yet another voicemail about 20 minutes later. Same result. Hmm … so I called it a night and told myself to give it another try in the morning. When I got to my computer this morning both the notifications appeared with a received timestamp of 1:51am … about 4 hours after the voicemails were left. Not the best turnaround time, but the only thing I thought might be causing the delay would be the transcription. Maybe it does take them longer to transcribe the voicemails than I thought and going by the first two, they weren’t too far off what I left:
hi i’m just testing out the voicemail to see if it works and see if you can and if that’s okay bye
It only messed up a few words … instead of “and if that’s” … I said “get this” … I give it an A on that transcription.
hi scott it’s not your voicemail hopefully you get this this week school if it works okay bye bye hey
I said something along the lines of “Hi Scott, this is your voicemail. Hopefully you get this. It will be cool if it works. Okay bye bye.” … the fact that I personally couldn’t understand a few of the words I have to give Google an A- on this one.
So far, so good and I thought it was time to give it another try to see if the delay was still happening. I called my Google Voice numbe, left yet another random voicemail and within 30 seconds the email WITH the transcription appeared. AWESOME!
hey sue i’m just testing without a and see what’s going on i thought this might be a great day well leave myself random knows so i know whether i should be doing today okay bye
I said “Hello, I am just testing this out again and see what’s going on. I thought this might be a great way to leave myself random notes so I know what I should be doing today. Okay bye.” … this time I give the transcription at B but the speed an A+!
The only other feature I tested was the SMS system. I sent myself a message to my Google Voice number and it showed up on there within seconds … and then I received the text message back to my phone. Hmm … not sure why that happened. I looked around the settings but didn’t see any place I could disable the delivery of a copy of the received SMS to my phone. I’d prefer all SMS messages sent to my Google Voice number just to stay in the Google Voice inbox … not be also sent to my cellphone.
I’ll keep you updated on my further tests of the service, but I do see this coming in handy with my web working.
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