Time is money, and when it comes to your cell phone bill the minutes, and money, can start to add up quickly, and anything you can do to save a few here and there can help ease the pain of an expensive bill. GotVoice has a new service that can not only save you a few minutes on your cell phone bill, but it can also help you centralize multiple voicemail accounts into one place, archive your voicemails on your computer, and even receive them at scheduled intervals in your email inbox.

I’m not a big voicemail user, but I can definitely see where a service like this one would really make it easier for someone who receives a high volume of voicemails on different phones to keep things organized. Just a few of the top ten reasons to use GotVoice from their website include:

• Business travelers can conveniently access all of their work and family voicemails in one central location on the Internet in the comforts of their hotel room. Juggling tasks while on the road just got easier.

• Cost-conscious mobile phone users don’t need to waste precious “paid minutes” listening to people rambling on their voicemail. With GotVoice they can listen to those messages via the Internet and not pay for “air time.”

GotVoice offers three levels of service which can be compared in the table above. Some notable differences between the three levels is that the basic service only allows you to receive email notifications of new voicemails, while plus and premium allow you to receive the voicemail as an attachment in your email inbox, and only premium allows you to setup an RSS feed to receive your voicemail as an RSS podcast.

Setup is a pretty simple process that includes four steps: first you have to check and make sure the service is compatible with your phone type, second you need to give the typical personal information, the third step involves providing some information about your phone including the password for your voicemail account, and the final step is just to make sure everything worked and went smoothly during the setup.

After everything is setup and running correctly, it is pretty easy to check your voicemail manually, all you need to do is log into your account and press the “get new” button.  It does take a little time to actually complete the process, but after about 60-90 seconds any new voicemails show up in an inbox that looks like any other email inbox. Each entry shows you who the call is from, how long it is, who it was received from, and you can easily listen to it in a flash player by clicking on the speaker icon. The quality of the recordings is actually pretty impressive and everything can be heard very clearly.

All in all I would say that this is a service that anyone who finds themselves listening to voicemail many times throughout the day would find very useful. Even if you aren’t interested in checking your voicemail online, this is a great service to save those great voicemails you may receive from time to time because all three levels of service are able to save their voicemails as an mp3 file on their computers.

Give GotVoice a try, sign up is free, and you may find it is a valuable tool you didn’t even know you needed. Let us know what you think about it in the comments, and if there are any other services that are similar to this one that you like to use, why not share those with us as well.

GotVoice.com: Advanced Technology for Voice Messaging

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