Writing emails with a voice through the new Google’s service

On Thursday Google will reportedly introduce its new product Google Voice that combines traditional phone features with Google's Gmail email. The new service will allow users to store transcripts of voicemail phone messages in their email inbox and to find a specific nugget of information within a phone message as if trawling through a sea of emails, reports Reuters.

Google Voice is built on the technology of Grand Central Communications, a company that Google acquired in July 2007. It is the first major update to Grand Central since the acquisition. Google Voice has the same features the original Grand Central product had, including a single phone number that can route incoming calls to home, office and cell phones.

In the new version the developers made provision for the speech-recognition technology that automatically transforms voicemails into text. Then a user can send the transcribed message as an email or SMS text message to a person's email inbox.

According to Craig Walker, group product manager for Real Time Communications at Google, Google Voice will be released as a free consumer product and other than a feature that bills Google Voice users when they make long-distance phone calls, the product has no immediate means of generating revenue.