How to Get Voice Mail Sent to Email
So you're expecting an important phone call, but you don't get it until you're in the middle of a meeting. You're dying to hear the voice message, but you don't want to be rude and pick up the phone. Here's an idea: Have your voice mails sent to your email account. That way you can get your important voice message without ever picking up the phone. Many websites allow you to converge your email and voice mail accounts by transferring unanswered phone calls to a third-party voice mailbox, which then forwards the message to your email.
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Convert your voice mails to email using Jott's Voicemail service. For a monthly fee, Jott will transcribe your messages and relay them to you via text message and email. Jott's unique service also allows you to reply to the message sender by either email or text. The downside is that Jott not only charges for its service, it also places a monthly limit on how many voice mails it will transcribe, which makes Jott useful for personal accounts, but severely restricting for business users.
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If you don't want to pay, try using YouMail's voice mail service. Its basic version is absolutely free and will send a transcribed version of your voice mails to your cell phone and email account. YouMail also offers its Ditchmail service, which can be used to play a unique rejection message to an individual caller whom you wish to block. In addition, YouMail's easy voice mail sharing feature allows you to share your voice messages with your favorite social networking site.
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Sign up for Google Voice. That is, if your lucky enough to get an invite. Google Voice is still in Beta mode as of February 2010, so all prospective users must either receive an invitation from a current user or wait for one from Google. Once you're in, Google Voice is extremely intuitive (particularly if you are already a Gmail user). With Google Voice, you can either set up a unique voice mail number in your area code, or you can choose to have all the calls from your current number forwarded to your mailbox. Best of all, it's a totally free service. The downside? Google's transcription service could still use an update or two.
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Tips & Warnings
Since most services will also send you voice mail transcriptions through text message, make sure to sign up for a text message service with your wireless provider in order to avoid huge text message overage fees.
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