1. A good read from the blogosphere on transcription quality

    Transcription quality does matter to users.

    Excerpt: “A few days ago I wrote about my first impressions of GoogleVoice. Now I have stopped using it. Here’s why…. transcription. I ran several tests to see how well the voicemail transcirption [sic] feature works. The bottom line is that it doesn’t work very well.”

    Read more:  http://nothing.golddave.com/?p=1122

     
  2. Blog tracks “Google Voice Screwups”

    We enjoy searching twitter and turning up stuff like this blog about Google Voice Screwups:  http://ow.ly/ybzB

    People have posted how Google Voice has butchered their voicemail.  Kind of makes it less useful, we think.  We all used to work in the speech recognition industry and while it’s getting a lot better, it’s still not anywhere near the Star Trek quality people hope for.  That might happen one day, but until then, real people do it better.

    Try ours out for free:  www.talk2.us/trial — No catches, no gotchas, no credit card required.

     
  3. Hat tip to Techcrunch.   Google Voice made some user messages public (with their permission) and you can hear the actual voicemails — and see the transcription quality (or lack thereof—your call) and it seems some censorship (or maybe it’s a feature that curse words aren’t translated).