Get Your Voice Mail with GotVoice

July 17th, 2006 | Joel | Web Services

Wish you can listen to your cell phone’s voice messages on-line? Well now you can with GotVoice! GotVoice is a very simple web-based tool that simplifies how you listen to your voice mail by converting your messages to MP3.

How does it work?
The concept is quite simple. You provide GotVoice with your phone number and voice mail pin, GotVoice will then check for new voice mail every so often, it emails you with a link to where you can listen to the message once it detects a new message, and finally, you log into your account and listen or download the voice message. Best part is that it is free to use.

With GotVoice, you can listen to your voice mail in your web browser via a stream or download the message to your computer as a MP3.

My personal experience
I have been using GotVoice for a couple of months now. The reason I choose to use GotVoice was simply because I HATE listening to voice mail on my cell phone. By using GotVoice I can quickly skim all voice mail on my PC and the email reminders sent by GotVoice is a great incentive for me to listen to the messages.

The only inconvenience I have with GotVoice is that once GotVoice checks my voice mail box, the “New Voice Mail” indicator on my cell phone disappears. Then I push the email reminders to one side and before I know it, I have a heap of voice mail waiting for my listening pleasure. Then when I listen to all the new messages on GotVoice.com, I have to go back and manually delete dozens of voice messages from my voice mail box via my cell phone. It would be great if GotVoice would provide an option where GotVoice deletes new messages as it saves them on their servers. [edited July 20th, 2006 7:28PM Est.]
Thanks to Martin Dunsmuir, the above problem is no more [1].

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