Just when you though that having a single phone number that would ring all your phones, coupled with a central voicemail inbox accesible from the web, including the ability to screen calls by listening in live as callers leave a voicemail for free couldn’t get any better, Google does it again.
That’s right. Google is revamping their GrandCentral system (which we’ve talked about before) and changing it’s name to Google Voice.
Aside from the privacy concerns that have been popping up everywhere in the blogosphere, the system and it’s features have received rave reviews and praise for the enhancements added to the platform. The one I like the best? Transcription of voicemail into text of course! That way you can read your voicemail at leisure, copy/paste them, search for specific terms, etc. Details about all the features are available here.
The official Google blog has more details about it and Mr. Pogue has a great video showing it in action. Even though it’s currently only available to existing GrandCentral customers (what can I saw, I got lucky 
), you can still request an invitation for when Google Voice becomes available to the public sometime next week.
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