Record and Transcribe Notes for Yourself with Google Voice [Notes] - 4982th Edition

In our first Lifehacker Wishlist, we came up with five wanted features in Google Voice, including an easy way to record and transcribe notes for yourself. Mark Stout suggests a Voice settings tweak to fulfill that wish.

Stout’s method involves setting up a special group in Voice’s caller settings for yourself (dubbed “Special Transcription” in his case), adding your cell phone number as the only member, setting up a very short greeting for that group, then setting the “Direct access to voicemail” question to No. He calls his own Voice number, records a memo, and it’s transcribed and sent to him via email. If you rely on listening to your voicemail over your phone, this makes pressing the “#” key during your uber-short greeting somewhat tricky. Then again, if you’re cool with Voice’s mostly-okay transcription, you likely don’t listen to your voicemail all that often.

Hit the link for Mark’s full run-through, and leave your own methods for recording an audio note to self, with Google Voice or without, in the comments.

By Kevin Purdy
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