I am a huge lover of what Google Voice can do . That ’s whyI’ve been call in for a mercifulness killing , so that its secure features can thrive in something other than a limp husk of a service . And now that Google is finallybeginning to merge Voice into Hangouts , the process has started in earnest . This is very honest newsworthiness .
Google Voice has always offered fantastic functionality . It give you one free , web - free-base speech sound number that can ring any phone you own . It delivers voicemail messages to an online inbox that will automatically ( try ) to transcribe them for you . It let you send text from a horrible Chrome extension . These are fantastic features and I do not want them to go away . Who would ?
But Google Voice has always suffered from one vast weakness : Google does not care about it . The Google Voice app has been outdated for geezerhood . And while Apple is push telephone calls forward withWi - Fi calling built right into iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite , complete withautomatic hand - offs when you leave the house , Google Voice has been getting theminorest of venial update .
It put us non - iPhone owners in an agonizing office . Apple is step on it toward the next - gen phone call future Google Voice promised us years ago . Hell , evenHangouts is undecomposed at spokesperson calling on iOS . Meanwhile Google Voice — which works on iPhones and Androids alike ( with Windows Phones unfortunately in the lurch)—has been shuffling forward like a zombie , its true hope trap inside a bloated not - quite stiff .
But no more ! Withthe brand new version of Google Hangouts , all of Voice ’s best features are relocate to a better home . text edition transcripts of voicemails will show up in Hangouts or else of being relegated to the frightful Google Voice app ! you’re able to finally make free Hangouts vocalisation call — that display as being from your Google Voice number — through the Android interpretation of Hangouts ! All you have to do is getthe newest app , opt - in to the merge , and downloada Hangouts Dialerif you want to call out from your Google Voice number . We are headed in the right direction .
Google Voice has been a shell of its potential self for years now , and with its best lineament headed to Hangouts , it ’s a hollower carapace than ever . Having Hangouts and Google Voice around simultaneously is just confusing . Let ’s just kill whatever ’s leave for good . And once Google Voice is officially dead , we can at last be that much close to a unified , multi - platform schmooze Robert William Service that ’s worth using .
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