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Neon prescription or rather, New transcription for Google Voice
- mholt 11y agoHuh. I really thought, given the amount of visible updates over the last 5 years that Google Voice would be one of the products Google was abandoning or maybe merging into some other business service. (Same goes for Blogger. I'm amazed they're still holding onto it.) I found Google Voice most useful ~5 years ago, but these days, my Android phone does just about everything I need... although occasionally I do miss conveniently sending texts from my computer.
- andybak 11y ago> occasionally I do miss conveniently sending texts from my computer Pushbullet or MightyText
- chimeracoder 11y agoFor me, the big surprise here is that Google Voice is still receiving any active development at all. Last I heard, the Voice team had been handed over to Hangouts, though I don't know if that was just a rumor. I can't remember the last time the Google Voice app received any update at all, and it's definitely been years since it received any non-trival, non-bugfix update. Not that I'm really complaining - it works well enough that I'd be more afraid that any update would break it by forcing me to use Hangouts or Google+ to use my Voice account. But it would be nice to, for example, have the Google Voice notifications support quick actions the way the stock messaging app on Android/CM does, and the way the Gmail app does.
- HappyTypist 11y agoThis update doesn't necessarily mean they are devoting any resources to it specifically. I think they probably just ported over their Google Now technology to Google Voice -- this change probably reduced their maintenance costs actually.
- medmunds 11y agoThe Google Voice web app hit me with a feature/satisfaction survey a couple of months ago, which gave me some hope that they might be considering some new development. (But also the fear they might be trying to decide whether to shut it down.) [GV user since it was Grand Central.]
- Vexs 11y agoI find it slightly amusing how so many difficult programming problems can be fixed by just tossing a neural network at it. They're not great for non-organic data, but they work so well for organic data, like text, handwriting, images, or in this case, voice. Of all the new things in programming, this one I'm looking forward to the most.