Rich Tehrani does a nice job of covering the Visual Voicemail space this week over at TMC.net. His review is fair across all companies in the space, but his main point is extremely important (though buried at the bottom.)

“Regardless of which service you choose, voicemail to text/visual voicemail is a fantastic productivity booster. I would imagine that students and smartphone users should also want to try the technology out for themselves. It is one of those really fantastic productivity enablers you just don’t expect to be so useful. Once you try one of these services you will wonder how you ever lived without them.”

KIRKLAND, Wash. –September 10, 2007 – GotVoice, Inc., the voice messaging company, today announced the launch of the GotVoice Transcription Service, which automatically transcribes voice messages from the user’s mobile, home and office phones into text and instantly sends them to users via email or SMS. In addition to providing the only transcription capabilities for home landline numbers and office/PBX phone systems, GotVoice is the only service with affordable transcription for Sprint/Nextel ™ customers—which represent 25 percent of the U.S. mobile phone market. Sprint/Nextel users are virtually blocked from using any other transcription service currently on the market, due to the provider’s system requirements for call forwarding…[cont]

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KIRKLAND, Wash. – June 12, 2007 – GotVoice, Inc., the voice messaging company, today unveiled the first-ever voicemail services specifically designed to simplify and enrich mobile voice messaging for people on the go. With society’s shift to a mobile lifestyle, GotVoice Mobile Compose and GotVoice Visual Voicemail make it easy for users to take their favorite GotVoice features on the road. For outgoing voice messaging, GotVoice Mobile Compose makes it easy to send one message to many recipients, eliminating the hassle of calling multiple people with the same information. Visual Voicemail is the industry’s only solution enabling users to view and play all home, mobile and work messages through their mobile phone’s Web browser. With the introduction of these features, GotVoice breaks new ground in helping consumers become more productive through voice messaging…[cont]

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KIRKLAND, Wash. – May 21, 2007 – GotVoice, Inc., the voice messaging company, today announced GotVoice Business Services, providing the industry’s first cost-effective voicemail-to-email solution for existing work or Private Branch Exchange (PBX) voicemail systems and handsets. Using GotVoice, businesses receive their PBX voicemails as MP3 files in email or at the GotVoice Website – without having to upgrade or replace their phone system. By making voice messages easy to sort, save, playback and forward, GotVoice helps businesses dramatically enhance productivity and cut costs…[cont]

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You Have One New Message; GotVoice Debuts Industry’s Most Advanced Voice Messaging Service

Finally Consumers Can Manage Voicemail Just Like Email – For Free

KIRKLAND, Wash. – March 19, 2007 – GotVoice works effortlessly with all major cell phone carriers, residential lines including those offered by cable and VoIP providers, and corporate voicemail systems – with no carrier or work-place involvement. Whether users opt to receive voicemail via email or at their personal GotVoice Web page, GotVoice enables them to easily send, receive, create and store all of their voice messages—in the same way they use email. There is no software to install and consumers don’t even need a phone to access messages…[cont]

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