One feature I didn't mention in my recent post about Google Voice, nor my other recent post about transcriptions, was the ability to have voicemail transcribed into text.
This feature is extremely useful for those who dislike the nature of checking voicemail, and the reliance on an audio-only playback. I now get my voicemail messages sent to me as email and SMS. I no longer have to dial in to some number, hit a bunch of options, and painfully cycle through voicemail messages.
Not such a big deal, you think? Imagine you are already talking on the phone with someone else, and a call comes through in which the person leaves a voicemail. Without even exiting the call you are on, you can get the voicemail text sent as SMS, and check it immediately. It's about multi-tasking - things the old notion of a "phone" did not let you do.
