GotVoice voicemail review

GotVoice names themselves "the pioneer in voicemail and voice messaging online services". It's based on voicemail feature - speech-to-text, which is not something new^*. How the service works? In common, there are 3 steps:

1. Retrieving voicemails from cellular, home and office phones.
2. Converting voicemail into text and audio files.
3. Delivering voicemail to your phone or computer as text and audio.

GotVoice allows to read voicemail instantly on your cell phone or by email, receive all of your voicemails as MP3 attachments in email or listen to them online, forward as MP3, save voicemails forever, make one call to reach everybody at once (broadcast calling), leave a message without ringing someone’s phone (silent delivery) and even customize your voicemail greeting by adding your favorite MP3 music (or audio clip from www.gotvoice.com website's library) as a background track.

Mass media's GotVoice reviews:

"A New Era for VoiceMail" - TCMnet  "Makes voicemail fun and functional" - ZDNet  "Innovative and creative"   - Washington Post

GotVoice Premium:

GotVoice Premium automatically retrieves voicemail from your cell phone and emails it to you as an MP3 file. GotVoice Premium is the only voicemail retrieval service that works with all major cell phone providers. Additionally, it's the only service that also offers broadcast messaging ("Make one call, Reach them all"); and customized voicemail greetings with your MP3 music mixed in as a background track.

• Read your Voicemail: voicemail transcribed to text and sent as SMS or email
• Listen to your Voicemail online or in email
• Save your Voicemail forever, or forward like email
• Broadcast Calling: Create & send voice messages to phones and email addresses
• Silent Delivery: Slip messages into voicemail without ringing the phone
• Custom Voicemail Gretings: add MP3 music as background tracks

GotVoice Compose:

• Broadcast calls out to 20 people at once
• Silent calls: Leave message without ringing phone
• Limited voicemail retrieval and greetings

GotVoice Greetings:

• Add MP3 music as a background track to your voicemail greeting
• Instantly update your greeting from any computer
• Limited voicemail retrieval and greetings

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GotVoice works with US Phones Only!
The following US Cell Phones services are supported:
AT&T/Cingular, Verizon Wireless, Sprint/Nextel, T-Mobile, Alltel, Cellular South, Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Mobi PCS.

Voicemail reviews:

GotVoice review at PCWorld.com (Visual Voicemail): http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,138264/article.html

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* The voicemail is not something new...

"Nearly every telco voicemail system deployed today has the ability to forward voice mail to email. They can also forward voice mail to phones via MMS. Some version of this has been around since voice mail (which predates the web) was invented. The carriers have just opted not to turn this on. The mobile operators could enable voice mail to MMS in a minute if they wanted to, and know how to (they don’t, they make good money off people checking their messages the usual way)."
More: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/06/03/get-voicemail-in-your-email-inbox-gotvoice/