What is Google Voice

Google Voice is about giving you more control over your communications, through dozens of features — ranging from call screening to voice-mail 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:

  • Voicemail transcription
  • One number
  • Personalized greetings
  • International calling
  • SMS to email
  • Share voicemails
  • Block callers
  • Screen callers
  • Mobile app
  • Conference calls