Internet search giant Google on Thursday expanded its push into the telephone market, offering a service that provides a single number for home, work and cell phones and turns voicemail into email.<\/p>\n
Google Voice automatically transcribes voicemail messages into email or SMS text messages and provides a transcript in a user’s email inbox on their mobile phone or computer.<\/p>\n
"When you receive a voicemail Google Voice will automatically transcribe it into text so you can read what the voicemail is about," Google said in an instructional video on the company blog.<\/p>\n
It warned, however, that since the transcripts are "fully automated" through voice recognition technology, they "may include mistakes".<\/p>\n
The service is currently available only to existing users of a Google-owned telephone service known as GrandCentral, which the Mountain View, California, Internet company purchased in July 2007.<\/p>\n
But Google said it is to be offered for free to new subscribers to Google Voice in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n
GrandCentral provides a single telephone number for home, work, and mobile phones and a central voicemail inbox that can be accessed through the Web.<\/p>\n
It also allows for low-priced international calls over the Internet.<\/p>\n
Like GrandCentral, Google Voice will also allow users to consolidate their home, work and cell phones in a single telephone number.<\/p>\n
Google during the past year has been actively exploring ways to expand its revenue, almost all of which currently comes from Internet search advertising.<\/p>\n
Recent moves include adding advertisements to Google properties such as Google News, Google Maps and Google Finance and to videos on YouTube, which Google purchased for $1.6 billion in 2006.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Google launched a test version of a new "interest-based" advertising system that shows ads targeted to Web surfers based on their previous online activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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