Google Voice: A Free Phone Option
That’s right. I said free. If you have a Google Account, you can sign up for Google Voice. You could have your Google Voice number ring all of your phones in your office. The first one to pick up gets the call.
You can even have Google Voice screen your callers. If you don’t want to talk to that particular person, you can press a button to send them to voicemail. What’s neat is that you can hear the voicemail AS they’re leaving it, and you can press a button to stop the voicemail and talk to them. It’s almost like an answering machine except that it’s digital.
Google Voice even transcribes your caller’s voicemail (although it doesn’t do too great of a job). You can even call people with your Google Voice number from Gmail. There’s more features to Google Voice than I mentioned. Visit www.google.com/voice to see.