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Google Voice, explained
February 18, 2010
(Cross-posted from the
Google Voice Blog
)
Google Voice is about giving you more control over your communications, through dozens of features — ranging from call screening to voicemail transcription to the ability to send and receive SMS by email.
While
we've heard from users
that they love our growing list of features, we're conscious of the fact that Google Voice can seem overwhelming to people trying it for the first time.
So we've created a short video that gives an overview of what Google Voice can do.
In addition, we've created a set of short videos that dive into more detail about ten features of Google Voice:
Voicemail transcription
One number
Personalized greetings
International calling
SMS to email
Share voicemails
Block callers
Screen callers
Mobile app
Conference calls
The videos show why you might want to use each feature and basic instructions for getting started. And each video focuses on just one topic so you can learn about the features that matter to you.
Finally, we just launched our own YouTube channel at
youtube.com/googlevoice
. You can view all of the videos mentioned above in a custom video gadget we built for this channel, which will help you keep track of which videos you've already watched.
We hope these videos help you get the most out of Google Voice.
Posted by Jason Toff, Associate Product Marketing Manager
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