Getting your voice mail as text is awesome. I started using a service that did this when I worked for Spinvox, in London, many years ago. But the service was sort of expensive, a Mechanical Turk, since there were a few offices spread about where transcribers would listen to your messages and type them out. Google Voice (aka Grand Central) did it better, and I’ve been using it for a while now. Today, they moved it into public availability, free for all, do go give it a whirl. Note: Lifehacker has a great write-up on making the service play nice with sipgate, so you can call out to regular old telephones.
