Jon • 24th May 2011 • Geek, Mobile • google voice, google voice transcription, voice transcribe, voicemail
Google Voice Transcribe is a pretty cool feature for Google Voice that acts as a voicemail transcription service. When people leave you a voice mail it transcripts it to text and has the capabilities to email or text you the transcription. unfortunately.. it’s far from perfect. For me at least.. it seems to only work halfway decent for female voice messages. Then again.. I do live in Kentucky. I guess until Google decides to hire a hillbilly for their text2speech technology this is a pretty useless capability for me.
here’s a few highlights of the voicemails I’ve received:
5/24/11 5:37 PM 2 hours ago
Hi Robin, with parrot alright measure my mother. Hello. Bye.
5/23/11 1:53 PM 30 hours ago
Hey Joshua, college just wanna make sure that you’re such a critical hired hall. I just don’t you try to call, so there’s a problem.
5/22/11 2:41 PM 2 days ago
And I guess. Okay, that there’s Russian check with you see if you’re here. Good Afternoon, Your case you wanna share this with area. What to do a dinner too. General So I just get back, get back with me 473 or Well, we will
here’s a site/tumblr dedicated to funny gvoice transcripts: http://www.gvtranscribe.com/
here’s what it’s suppose to do according to google:
Jon • 9th May 2011 • Mobile • android, android 2.2, froyo, intercept, samsung intercept, virgin mobile
I switched to virgin mobile about 6 months ago from straight talk since they had a much better phone selection and plans. Straight Talk does have unlimited “data” as well.. but I put quotes around “data” because even though it’s unlimited they restrict anything and everything. You can only browse a select amount of sites that they allow you too.. and half the times the ones that weren’t blacklisted by them didn’t even load either. (IE: Facebook). I could complain about Straight talk for a couple 20 paragraphs but back to the point of my post.
I ended up getting the Samsung Intercept and the phone itself was pretty buggy on 2.1 eclair.. but they promised there would be an update to 2.2 froyo at some point in the future. I believe Sprint released 2.2 for the intercept in November but don’t hold me on that.. it was in 2010 though. VM finally started pushing out the update in April and it made this phone finally worth while. Before it was pretty much unusable aside from the usual phone functions such as making calls, and responding to texts. The screen was VERY non-responsive to touches, and you’d have to hit the button over and over before it actually decided to do what you wanted. but the update has fixed that problem and a ton of others. I actually enjoy this phone now and have been going a little crazy downloading random apps. I would definitely recommend this as a starter android phone if you haven’t dealt with androids or iphones before. Also you can’t beat getting actual unlimited data for 25$/month through Virgin Mobile.
I’m not the best at themes.. but I did pretty up my android desktop some.. with a custom lockscreen and a few widgets.
