How to setup and use Google Voice
The account you are transferring your Google Voice number to has to be a Google account as well. Click on the link below to get started.
1. You click through four bullet points acknowledging you understand what is involved in transferring your account before you are presented with the link to go through the actual transfer.
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.
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.
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
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 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.
There are several ways to place call using Google Voice:
1. From the Google Voice website
2. From call phone in Gmail
3. From the Google Voice Phone System
4. From the Google Voice iPhone or 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
If you ever have the need to have a conference call between family members or business clients, you can use the Google Voice conference call feature. You can have a four way (you plus 3 others) calling using this feature. Follow the two simple steps below. 1. At a scheduled time, ask each conference call … Read more
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.