What is Google Voice

In a nutshell, Google Voice is a telecommunications service that helps you manage and customize your phone, voicemail and SMS usage. By signing up with Google Voice, you can have one phone number that can access all of your numbers (home, mobile and work). While your number may change if you switch carriers, your Google … Read more

How to enable Do Not Disturb in Google Voice

To send all calls made to your Google number directly to voicemail, you need to enable Do Not Disturb from a phone or through the Google Voice website. Once enabled, all calls will be sent to voicemail until you disable the setting.

Note: Any text messages sent to your Google number while Do Not Disturb is enabled, will also not be forwarded to your mobile phone.

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Block Spam Calls in Google Voice

Google has a Global Spam Filtering system that would automatically redirect calls, texts, and voicemails from any of the numbers in the Google database that have been identified as spam directly into your spam folder. But you will need to enable this feature for it to work.

To enable this feature:

1. Log on to your account at http://voice.google.com

2. Click the wrench icon and select Voice Settings.

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Google voicemail custom greetings and settings

With Google Voice, you can have custom greeting for all callers to hear or separate greetings for groups.

Setting up Voice mail greeting :

For All Contacts

  • Click gear icon at the top right of any page, click Voice settings, and select the Voicemail & Text tab.
  • In the Voicemail Greeting section, click the Record New Greeting button.
  • Enter the name for the greeting you’re going to record and click Continue.
  • Record Greeting box appears. Select the phone you want to call to record the greeting, from the Phone to ring drop-down menu.
  • Click Connect.

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How to share a forwarding number in Google Voice

If you want to share a home number with your spouse, roommate or family member or work number with a colleague, both of you can add the same home or work number to Google Voice. 1. Sign in to the Google Voice website. 2. Click the gear icon at the top of the page, click Settings, and select … Read more

Google Voice International Calls

Google Voice has one of the lowest rates on international calls. To make calls, you use either the Google Voice website or the phone system, as long as you have one of your forwarding phones or smartphone available to complete the call.

In order to make international calls, you need to have credits in your Google Voice account. You can purchase credit through Google Wallet.

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Make calls from the Google Voice Android app

Placing calls with Google Voice is almost the same as placing calls via your mobile carrier, depending on whether you have a Google number and how you have configured Google Voice on the phone. 1. Call a contact just as you would without Google Voice. 2. If you’ve configured Google Voice to ask whether you want … Read more

Can I Port My Number to Google Voice?

Only mobile numbers can be ported to Google Voice.  When you go through the porting process, you will know if your mobile number can be ported or not. You cannot port landline to Google Voice at this time. A work around for this is to port your landline to a mobile service like AT&T GoPhone. Then port the number from AT&T GoPhone to Google Voice. However, this work around does not work for all landline numbers.

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