GotVoice: Get all your voicemails online

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GotVoice: Get all your voicemails online

by Jordan Running Dec 15th 2005

This is a pretty cool concept whose time has come: GotVoice lets you connect your voicemail to the web. All of it. Here's how it works: You tell GotVoice how to get your voicemail. At scheduled times or just whenever you tell it to, GotVoice will check your messages for you. If you have any, it will e-mail them to you as MP3s and also make them available in their web-based interface. Setting it up is easy and relatively quick, but perhaps the most difficult thing about GotVoice is typing your PIN number into a web form. It just feels weird. GotVoice has a pretty friendly privacy policy, so if you trust them to abide by it there's little risk in signing up, especially since it's free for individual use. The sound quality is good enough and the MP3s—32kbps mono—are quick downloads. In fact, if you want to hear an authentic voicemail message retrieved from my Verizon voicemail and sent to my e-mail, click here (and don't tell my very terse friend I put her voice up on the web). It appears that you can add an unlimited number voicemail accounts, though home answering machines are unsupported.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Joel said 4:45PM on 12-15-2005

you may think of blocking out the numbers in the pic, under the memo

dalton said 6:31PM on 12-15-2005

Hrm, I wonder if they do Vonage? Vonage has this neat feature where they email you to tell you that you have a new voicemail...but then you have to log in to their damn site to check it! Just email me the message, already!

brian said 6:58PM on 12-15-2005

just signed up - darn nice tool! in less than 20 minutes it's verified my wireless VM account, downloaded 4 messages (i asked it to grab both new and saved ones, and it did) and they're waiting in my email. best part: no more annoying 'VM waiting' light on my phone, as they're marked read and moved to the 'saved' folder in the VM system.

i hate calling in for VM, so this seems like a great way to get them. plus, the opportunity to play back my friends' moments of recorded hilarity is irresistable... ;)

a very nice tool - i wonder how long until they want to charge me for something i've grown attached to (ala efax) ?

Max... said 7:43PM on 12-15-2005

Old application, new name. About 5 years ago there were a couple of companies that did basically the same thing. One was called Hot Voice (which actually is still around) if memory serves me right. I might check into this and see how well it works.

William C Bonner said 8:24PM on 12-15-2005

My vonage account does all that, plus emails the wav files to me. I just wish that my cell phone voice mails were archived in my email as well. I may have to look into this service.

Richard Perritt said 2:17PM on 12-16-2005

"NOTE: Currently, GotVoice is only available in North America."

Uh ya right. Maybe someone should inform them that _NORTH_ America includes Canada and Mexico. All I see are _US_ providers.

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