GVoice sans phone?
Robert Citek
were you able to do it?
From what I can tell Google Voice is meant as an intermediary service
between other parties and your phone, with the phone being a key
component. There does not seem to be a way to replace the phone with
a telephony client running on a PC (Windows/linux/Mac/etc.). Just
started Googling and haven't found it yet.
Regards,
- Robert
Robert Citek
work because I have a SkypeIn number.
Regards,
- Robert
Bryan Venable
have to dial out with the GV web interface, though. You just add your
Gizmo number to GV and use that as your dial back number. Also if
someone calls you it'll ring your Gizmo line. Also there may be a
time limit on calls you initiate, although I wouldn't say I have
enough of a sample to be sure.
You can also use the Perl script someone wrote that connects to the
web interface and initiates a call (optionally specifying a
non-default number to dial back). I'm working on extending that
script with a shell wrapper to get data from the inbox views and parse
it into nice columns of text. Eventually I'm going to have it pass
data to the Prowl perl script to send it to my iPhone as a push
notification.
Robert Citek
> It also works with Gizmo (http://gizmo5.com/). I've found that you
> have to dial out with the GV web interface, though. You just add your
> Gizmo number to GV and use that as your dial back number. Also if
> someone calls you it'll ring your Gizmo line. Also there may be a
> time limit on calls you initiate, although I wouldn't say I have
> enough of a sample to be sure.
That's what I've been doing with Skype: initiate the call with GV and
specifying my Skpe number. Since Skype sees it as an incoming call
there is no charge.
> You can also use the Perl script someone wrote that connects to the
> web interface and initiates a call (optionally specifying a
> non-default number to dial back). I'm working on extending that
> script with a shell wrapper to get data from the inbox views and parse
> it into nice columns of text. Eventually I'm going to have it pass
> data to the Prowl perl script to send it to my iPhone as a push
> notification.
And this is what I was getting at: GV is like an intermediary between
two phone numbers only. There is no PC to phone or PC to PC feature
For PC to PC use Google Talk. That is, Google is making a clear
distinction between Google Voice and Google Talk. At least for now.
Regards,
- Robert
Bryan Venable
http://code.google.com/p/pygooglevoice/