In fact, Voice even transcribes your messages so that you can read them instead of listening to them – a feature users say is becoming more accurate over time It included centralized voicemail, too, so that any message left on any of your phones could be accessed from any device, either on the app on Android, iOS, or in a web browser. Google Voice’s idea was to offer users one phone number which could reach any of your devices simultaneously and allow SMS messaging, so you could carry out all your communication from one, organized place. The idea was to prevent people from having to have multiple devices connected to multiple numbers – an office landline, a company mobile phone, a personal mobile, a home landline. Many users are hopeful that these new features will start bringing Voice closer to its stated intended function when it was first released: ‘to create “one number for life” – a phone number that’s tied to you, rather than a single device or location’. For the first time in five years, Google has announced significant updates to its Google Voice service, with promise of even more developments to come.

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