Time For Voice-Mail To Throw In the Towel

Posted by kdawson on Saturday May 9, 2009 @08:38PM from the surging-unemployment-among-voice-actors dept.

theodp writes "Slate's Farhad Manjoo feels the end of voice-mail is nigh, and it won't be missed. Since March, he's been using Google Voice to transcribe his voice-mail messages into text that he gets as skimmable e-mail. No more listening to at least a bit of each voice-mail message, hearing the same instructional prompts between each, and worrying about whether it's 9-to-archive and 7-to-skip (or vice versa). Goodbye and good riddance, says Manjoo, to an 'absurdly backward mode of human-computer interaction' that he half-jokes must violate the Geneva Conventions."

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That's great... by kirbysuperstar · 2009-05-09 20:58 · Score: 5, Informative

..if you live in America. I'm pretty sure Google Voice isn't available elsewhere.
1. Re:That's great... by AlexBirch · 2009-05-09 21:23 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  This isn't available to everyone in the USA, just the Grand Central customers. This has been one of Google's larger failures.