You’ve got mail… Voice Mail!
Have you ever found yourself burried in voicemail messages? Whether you are out of the house for a few minutes or in an area with no cell reception, surely there have been days where you didnt get your voicemail as readily as you might have liked. I know this happens to me occasionally.
Being a VoIP user, I like getting email notifications of any voicemail messages I receive… this allows me to listen to the messages from anywhere I have Internet access and removes the need for me to check in with the VoIP provider’s site to see if there are messages for me to listen to. However, for my cellular phone there is no email convenience feature to email me when I have a new message. Or is there?
There is a solution out there that doesnt cost anything for its basic service. The website is called GotVoice and allows you to setup your cellular phone or traditional home phone to have its voicemail retrieved and emailed to you. You can play the message right from the email. Unified messaging for non-IP telephony.
The service works by collecting information about your phone when you set up your account. You tell GotVoice your phone number and voicemail pin number, and it calls your phone based on a schedule you configure and retrieve’s messages. Then it emails them to you.
You can sign up for plus service, which emails the voicemail message(s) as email attachments in MP3 format, and allows more checks per day (10 checks per day, up from 3 with the free service) or Premium service, which will deliver voicemail in an RSS feed and allow playback from Itunes (or an RSS Reader) and carries 24 checks per day.
The basic service allows you to listen to voicemail from your account, you click on a link in the email and the GotVoice web player pops up and plays new messages.
The service is secured by user supplied login/password that is stored in a database, configured and set by the user.
Also, with the free service you will get ads on the account screen and in the emails received denoting messages.
Basic service is free, Plus service is 4.95/month and Premium service is 9.95/month. From the limited use I have had with the service it seems pretty cool. We will see how it goes for a few days, sounds like a cool idea though.
