Via Google Voice.<\/p>\n

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A little over a year ago, we released an early preview<\/a> of Google Voice, our web-based platform for managing your communications. We introduced one number to ring all your phones, voicemail that works like email, free calls and text messages to the U.S. and Canada, low-priced international calls and more\u2014the only catch was you had to request and receive an invite to try it out. Today, after lots of testing and tweaking, we\u2019re excited to open up Google Voice to the public, no invitation required.<\/p>\n

Over the past year, we\u2019ve introduced a mobile web app<\/a>, an integrated voicemail player in Gmail<\/a>, the ability to use Google Voice with your existing number<\/a> and more<\/a>. Over a million of you are now actively using Google Voice, and many of the features released over the past year (like SMS to email<\/a> and our Chrome extension<\/a>) came as a result of your suggestions, so thanks! <\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t yet tried Google Voice, we can\u2019t wait for you to try it out and let us know what you think<\/a>. Check out our revamped features page<\/a> to learn about everything Google Voice can do, and if you haven\u2019t seen it yet, this video provides a good overview in less than two minutes:<\/p>\n

We\u2019re proud of the progress we\u2019ve made with Google Voice over the last few years, and we\u2019re still just scratching the surface of what\u2019s possible when you combine your regular phone service with the latest web technology. It\u2019s even more amazing to think about how far communication has come over the last couple hundred years. To put things in context, we created this infographic to visualize some recent history of human communication and how Google Voice uses the web to help people communicate in more ways than ever before (click the image for a larger version):
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Update 10:38 am: Just to clarify, though we’ve opened up sign-ups, Google Voice is still limited to everyone in the U.S. for now.
Posted by Craig Walker & Vincent Paquet, Google Voice Product Managers<\/p>\n

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