The answering machine is history… almost!
Google is finding it’s way into the very fabric of our being! Google Voice is slated to hit prime time shortly. No more excuses… The answering machine is always on!
Gmail pioneered the unique approach of targeted ad campaigns by trolling through our in-boxes. Will GoogleVoice adopt a similar approach by parsing our sound bytes to figure out what we may want to buy?Although, I must say, listening to ads while retriving my voice-mail doesn’t seem very palatable 
But of all the features the GoogleVoice offers, the one that floats to the top on my list is Personalized Greetings. With the ease of changing greetings via the web, having one voice greeting for the wife another for the boss is… sweet!
Now, if only they would add a Text-to-speech (TTS) feature to the voice-mail, the possibilities are endless: eMail to vMail and back, on the touch of a button!
Technically, parsing voice data seems like a daunting task. But… if any company is poised well to take on that project and scale it well, I’d bet my money on Google Inc.
