Using Google Voice Without a Google Voice Phone Number

Google Voice is on the verge of revolutionizing the way we communicate
with each other, from personal reasons, to business matters and work.
Google Voice gives users the ability to carry on telephone
conversation over the computer, treat email like
they were voicemail, get free international calls (you will still
have to pay for your cell phone or land-line phone provider's long
distance charges), and read your voicemail like it was an email. There
are many very useful purposes for using Google Voice, including
customizing all of the greetings that your callers receive when they
are transferred to voicemail.

Tips on using Using Google Voice without getting a Google Voice phone
number start with knowing that using the Google Voice service without
the Google Voice phone number is sort of like buying a 4-G phone and
not getting text or web browsing capabilities from your service
provider. Google Voice has great features that make using and
organizing your emails and voicemails much more easy to use, and the
features are all customizable. You will not be able to record,
translate or transcribe your phone calls, emails or voicemails without
first getting a Google Voice phone number, but you will have great
options to work with your incoming phone calls and voicemails.

Using Google Voice with your personal phone numbers, either cell (3-G
and 4-G), land-line or computer-based, allows you to receive Google
Voicemail, an email like voicemail service. You can have your
voicemails transcribed by the computer, so that you can read them,
over and over if you so wish, from your computer, or any of your
web-enabled phones. You can also forward, imbed or download any or all
of your voicemails, giving you much more flexibility with dealing with
your voicemail account(s).

One great feature of Google Voice, used without the Google Voice phone
number (which gives you control over incoming phone calls) is that you
can make each separate incoming phone number have a distinct ring, or
have your computer say something, like "don't answer, it's the ex!".
You can
customize the greetings that each separate incoming phone number gets
when they are forwarded to voicemail, and then you can store the
transcribed voicemails for later reading.

International calls are free on Google Voice, but without the voice
over Internet protocol (VOIP) Google Voice phone number, you will have
to pay the normal long distance rates of your phone service
carrier(s). You can even share your voicemails with others, or store
them to your hard drive using Google Voice.

Adding a Google Voice phone number adds more than just the ability to
record any incoming phone calls, something which could be dangerous if
the person being recorded is not told of the recording before the
conversation, and finds out that you are sharing that conversation
with others. This has the potential to be a hot-potato income source
for litigious lawyers, but used with proper morals, and not
embarrassing the caller, can avoid any possible troubles.

Enjoy Google Voice. Try it out, if you really love it, sign up for a
Google Voice phone number to release the full potential of Google
Voice.