I'm switching all my various phone numbers to my Google Voice number. I am not at all good at checking my voice-mail in a timely manner. And that is not good business and is not fair to friends and relatives either. But until now there has been no good, easy, and inexpensive way to not need to listen to voice mail if folks want to leave you verbal message (and some folks still do, I guess. And my mom will probably never text me...no matter how many times I show her how). But Google Voice offers voice mail transcription for free. When someone calls me and leaves a voice mail, that voice-mail is then transcribed by Google and emailed to me within a minute or two (the audio is also emailed, so I can listen to those bits where Google couldn't quit get it right). And now I can finally check my voice-mail during movies!!! (That was a joke. I was soooo kidding there! Just a joke Barrett!). Unfortunately, Google Voice is only available now to former users of the Grand Central call routing service. But it should be widely available soon (maybe once they figure out how to make any money with it...which someday Google may need to do...)
