Perhaps the best perk of using Google Voice is its voicemail message transcription service, which allows you to read messages from your mobile phone in text form.

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Put the same thought into your outgoing voicemail message.

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This was just a voicemail message.

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It can send a message to all message addresses (phone number, e-mail address, instant messaging screen name) for all message types (voicemail, e-mail, instant message, SMS, MMS, fax).

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They usually come during the day and leave a message on your home voicemail.

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You can choose to listen to the voicemail in any order, by touching the screen and the message plays.

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When Clayton landed in Bangkok, he flipped on his phone and left a voice message to say he had arrived safely, but he didn't do it into a normal voicemail box.

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