1. Google Voice is about giving you more control over your communications, through dozens of features — ranging from call screening to voicemail transcription to the ability to send and receive SMS by email.

    While we've heard from users that they love our growing list of features, we're conscious of the fact that Google Voice can seem overwhelming to people trying it for the first time.

    So we've created a short video that gives an overview of what Google Voice can do:



    In addition, we've created a set of short videos that dive into more detail about ten features of Google Voice:
    1. Voicemail transcription
    2. One number
    3. Personalized greetings
    4. International calling
    5. SMS to email
    6. Share voicemails
    7. Block callers
    8. Screen callers
    9. Mobile app
    10. Conference calls
    The videos show why you might want to use each feature and basic instructions for getting started. And each video focuses on just one topic so you can learn about the features that matter to you.

    Finally, we just launched our own YouTube channel at youtube.com/googlevoice. You can view all of the videos mentioned above in a custom video gadget we built for this channel, which will help you keep track of which videos you've already watched.


    We hope these videos help you get the most out of Google Voice.

  2. Until now, sending a text message to multiple recipients required copying and pasting the message for each recipient.

    To make this a bit easier, we just launched the ability to send a single SMS message to multiple recipients. Just click on the SMS button at the top of your Google Voice inbox, enter names or numbers (separated by commas) in the "To" field, write your message and click send.



    Replies from each recipient will be threaded into separate conversations, so you can keep track of them in your Google Voice inbox. To prevent spam, we've set a maximum of five recipients per message.

    This feature is also available from the Chrome extension and we'll also be adding it to the Google Voice mobile app soon.

    We hope you like this new feature, and as always, welcome your feedback.

    Posted by Greg Hecht, Member of Tech Staff
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