I received my Google Voice number, it is (censored). I was trying to see how it worked and hadn’t really tried to use it yet, but I did get my fancy free cards with the number on them. I have to admit, I feel like Steve Martin in the Jerk.

“The new phone books are here, the new phone books are here!”

The first thing I did was forward the number to my cell. I had forgotten about till I was hanging with Max at the second carnage fest of the summer. We were discussing technology and nifty swell stuff and the google voice thing came up. We both thought it would be cool if it would take a message and convert it to text for you. So we tried. I expected Max to leave me a simple message, I would check my messages when I got home. Silly me.

Here is the message Max left for me.

While I sat there, thinking about what he had just said, I got a text message, from Google. It was the text of the message. Wow. Why am I so amazed at this? Anyway…

Here is the Google interpretation of what Max said into the phone.

Hello, I am in engine, scooby, doo is my friends and I love to cancel model and I'd love to charge and peanut butter is fantastic. Yeah.

Considering it all, it is pretty impressive. The ability to convert voice to text is nothing new, I agree. But this is more than that. This is something else. I am not sure what yet, but, I am liking it.

Get your Google voice number by signing up. They will contact you eventually. Be sure to get your free cards if they are available. Also check out all the other features they have with this service.

http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html

I sure hope they get the breathalyzer feature working. That way when I get drunk, I can only call cabs, and my Mother. My exes are starting to get annoyed by my late night angry rants about how I am right.