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Voicemail in Gmail?

Garett Rogers, who last week broke the story about Gmail for Domains based on a line of code spotted in the source, has discovered a new feature: voicemail.

It seems the G-guys are adding features all the time, at least in seed form. Maybe they’re just drumming up a bit of much-needed feelgood to bolster the southward tendency of the share price.

Whatever, here’s how Rogers describes his find:

A voicemail service will allow people to use Gmail as an answering machine that won’t run out of space or need rewinding — who knows, maybe it will be searchable using speech to text technology. This service will be most useful when Google starts providing full VoIP services, but until then it could be used for missed GTalk calls. Recorded messages will be available for listening through Gmail — possibly with a flash applet designed to play them like Google Reader’s podcast feature.

Life gets complicated, don’t it?

One Response to “Voicemail in Gmail?”

  1. Yeah, I hope Google setups voicemails. It’ll be pretty good.

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