![]() ![]() You’ll just be able to initiate and receive calls directly to your computer as you can with Skype and other services today. At that point you won’t even need a phone any more. It works on smartphones and computers, and syncs across your devices so you can use the app in the office, at home, or on the go. One last thing – it likely won’t be too long before Google is adding soft phone functionality to the browser directly via their Gizmo5 acquisition. Google Voice gives you a phone number for calling, text messaging, and voicemail. This Firefox add-on, for example, has nice click to call functionality but it requires that you give it your username and password. Number assignment, porting, and billing are neatly consolidated in the familiar Google Workspace Admin console. Google Voice doesn’t have an API, so third party applications need to harvest your user credentials to do anything useful with it. The extension should work fine for Windows Chrome users. Download one of the recent builds here (most recent at the bottom). The extension is buggy on Macs, and you need to use the most recent Chromium build, not the launched Chrome for Mac to use it. You can type in a name or phone number and call or sms it from the browser, and read recent text messages and transcribed voicemails (Google automatically transcribes voicemails, usually horribly, but it’s fun). The extension also adds a small box in the upper right of the browser. ![]() Now we have it, all you have to do is use Chrome. Simple Voice can be customized to fit your day-to-day workflow. And I’ve asked for web based click to call from the Google Voice team for months. I’m always cutting and pasting phone numbers from websites into Google Voice to make calls. It then calls that phone, and puts you through to the number. Clicking the icon next to the phone number. Click it and Google will throw you a pop up window asking which phone you want to use (home, mobile, work, etc.). The Google Chrome extension for the VoiceEdge Desktop app allows for calling directly from the Google Chrome browser. So if there is a phone number on a web page, like a Yelp page or your online address book, it will now have a hyperlink. The extension adds click to call functionality to web pages. If you’re a Google Voice user (I’m possibly the most rabid one around, I even ported my phone number to Google) you’ll probably make the change, too. The reason – the official Chrome Google Voice extension, which was updated on Friday. I’ve just changed my default browser from Safari to Chrome. With Google Voice Extensions (GVE), you’ll create a phone number dedicated to Google Voice calls, called your Google Voice Virtual Number (GVVN). ![]()
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