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What is Google Voice?

A very condensed version of Google Voice is that Google gives you a single phone number, based on your area code or zip code that rings to one or all of your phones, including work, home or mobile. It also saves your voicemail online and transcribes your voicemail to text.

Google Voice has a ton of cool features like the ability to listen in on messages while they’re being left, block unwanted callers and it gives you the ability to create contact groups.

You can also integrate Google Voice into your website, by embedding voicemail messages or call widgets. When using the call widget, you can select which of your phone numbers you want the call forwarded to, or simply direct those calls to voicemail. You can even customize the voicemail greetings.

The default group settings are for friends, family or co-workers, but you can create your own group name. 

For each group, you can set which phones will ring and assign a specific voicemail greeting. For example, you can adjust your settings so that when your contacts in your co-workers group call, Google Voice rings your office phone only, and those contacts hear the voicemail greeting you created for them. I see lots of possibilities here.

Want to know more? Google has an entire series of videos on YouTube covering:

What is Google Voice

Mobile Applications

Sign Up Options

Screen Callers

Conference Calls

Block Callers

Share Voicemails

SMS to Email

International Calling

Personalized Greetings

One Number