Will Google Voice be free in 2013
4-em:
Quote from: MitchDeerfield on July 02, 2012, 12:55:54 pm
The only way Google makes money on Google Voice is through selling long distance service out of the USA/Canada area. They might make some associated money with running ads on Google Mail or Google Voice.
Yeah, well that and aggregating all of your personal telephone traffic for selling to the data mining cabals :o
Let's face it - Google is in the information business, and when you use any of their "free products" they are collecting data from you. In that respect our tinfoil hatted troll is correct, there is nothing free about free services on the Internet.
giqcass:
Too late. Advertising on TP already happened. A Michigan company is doing that. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/story/2012-08-20/toilet-paper-advertising-coupons/57157328/1
Google is always tight lipped right up until they are ready to release info. The military could talk to them about keeping secrets but I'm betting on more free calls for 2013. I think the only reason they would charge is if they were forced to pay 911 fees.
CoalMinerRetired:
Quote from: VaHam on October 13, 2012, 08:10:23 am
Don't forget Google has a universal TOS; also keep in mind Google has developed an excellent voice to text capability. Being an advertising company, gleaning information from your phone calls would add another tool in the advertising arsenal.
In reply to the bolded part, IME the voice to text is not very good at all. I've been using a GV ported landline for four months and have yet to receive one VM more than slightly close to what was actually said, the text that comes out is jumbled and maybe every fifth word is correct. In fact, if this is what Google systems will be using to data mine GV conversations, I have no privacy worries at all, it's almost as is the conversations are encrypted.
Scott21:
Or google could just buy obi lol.
Rick:
As far as Google's voice to text capability, I agree that transcription of voicemails leaves a lot to be desired. I love the feature that puts the voicemail file as an attachment I can listen to on my Smartphone though.
It's interesting, because on an Android phone Google's voice is amazingly accurate, i.e. speaking a text message or email, or issuing commands. Untrained by the way. Too bad it doesn't work near that well for voicemail transcription.
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