And now Google Voice is on the run..
Today Goggle enters in the run of mobile phones market with the new Google voice service. Formerly Grand Central this telecommunication service provision an unique number who centralizes all the voice communications. If we can supposed (as we do) that this will be followed by a good number of APIs and Webservices to support new and innovative voice integration into Google web apps ecosystem.. this annonce can be very relevant to our research.
Some features @Wikipedia :
Google Voice has retained many of GrandCentral’s features, with several additions.
- A single Google forwarding number to all of the user’s phones
- Free calls and SMS in the US and Canada
- Calling international phone numbers for as low as US$0.02 per minute
- Call screening. Announcement of callers based on their number or by an automated identification request for blocked numbers
- Listening in on someone’s recording of a voice message before taking a call
- Blocking calls from specified numbers
- Send, receive, and store SMS online
- Answering incoming calls on any configured phone
- Call routing. Selection of phones that should ring based on calling number
- Voicemail transcripts. Reading of voicemail messages online
- Listening to voicemail online or from a phone
- Notification of voicemail messages via email or SMS
- Personalized greetings based on calling number
- Forward or downloading of voicemails
- Conference calling
- Call recording and online archiving
- Switching of phones during a call
- Viewing the web inbox from a mobile device/phone
- Customize preferences for contacts by group
- Ability to change your number for a fee
- Specifying an existing phone number instead of the Google Voice number on initial setup for use with limited functionality, such as some voicemail functions.[16] and using the voice mail system for the user’s phone number (mobile devices only).[17]
For more about features, see Google Voice About.
