The latest mode of telecommunication is launched by Google. The Google voice was released in 2009 march 11. This facility is only made available to users in United States and Canada. From a selected area the user can select a US phone number which is made free of him. To the other numbers provided by the user the inbound calls that are coming to that specified number are transmitted.
The voice mail service provided has many facilities. It shows the history after you make a call. A conferencing facility and also call blocking facility is also enabled. It has a mechanism of voice transcription; here it translates your voice into text form. Another interesting feature is that you can change from one phone to other while you are talking in the phone itself.
The messaging facility is made free to Canada and US. The call forwarding facility will help you to forward the calls to the number of phone numbers as you prescribe. And also if you want to forward a call to a landline of that locality then it is absolutely free. It offers outstanding configurability. Three hours of local free calls is provided to the local places. A centralized voicemail system is provided so that you can transcribe the voice mail to your personal computer. You can take the help of Google voice to call different numbers many times a day. Screening of the calls is also made possible and if you don't want to attend calls from certain number then you can block their calls. If you pay then you can change your number. You can keep your contact in group and assign preference accordingly. You can also forward a voice mail and also there is option to download a voice mail. They also provide you an option to set greeting for specific phone numbers. You can also answer the call from any of the configured numbers you provide.