Forward Your Voicemail to Google Voice (Voicemail to Email)
If you like the idea of google voice (and its free voicemail to email transcription service) but aren’t crazy about the prospect of effectively changing your phone number over to google, then I’ve recently discovered a happy medium which might interest you.
You can redirect your mobile phone’s voicemail–just the voicemail–over to google voice. GV takes your incoming voicemails, transcribes them to text, and then emails them to you (or sends you a text msg). Here is how you set it up:
1) Forward your unanswered calls over to GV:
Verizon - dial *71[your google voice number] then send/talk AT&T/Cingular/T-Mobile/Other - *004*1[your google voice number]*11# then send/talk Sprint - Call Sprint support and ask them to enable Call Forward No Answer to your assigned Google Voice number
2) Set Google Voice to ‘Do Not Disturb’ mode.
You could optionally skip this step, but then callers would get 4-6 rings on your mobile phone, followed by 4-6 additional rings at GV. That’s a lot of rings. By turning on GV’s ‘do not disturb’ mode, you send GV callers right to voicemail so they skip the second set of rings. To enable ‘Do Not Disturb’ mode, go to SETTINGS \ GENERAL [tab] \ Click the ‘Enable Do Not Disturb’ checkbox.
3) Done! Place a test call to test everything out.
The only downside to this configuration is that you basically have to leave GV in ‘do not disturb’ mode all the time. So you’ve relegated it almost entirely to a voicemail service. But at least this can serve as a first step towards an eventual total switchover.
jason
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