> Yeah was looking at that, blueface offer a 076 number for a
> pay-as-you-go based phone for a starting fee of €5. However I am unsure
> what the cost is for people that call me, I seen on boards.ie
> <http://boards.ie> that eircom and BT do not include call to 076 numbers
> in there bundles.
FYI - With freespeech.ie a local number + 300 bonus minutes per month is
€4.97 (inc. VAT) on a pay as you use plan. If google voice is providing
a US number that would be included in the bonus minutes for forwarding.
/KB
On 06/04/2011 17:37, imduffy wrote:
>> Alternatively you can buy a dedicated local number from an Irish
> VoIP provider which will include voicemail to email and you will
> also get the benefit of cheaper calls. This is probably the cheapest
> option available (then again I am not aware of how much irish
> Skype-in numbers are).
>>>> Yeah was looking at that, blueface offer a 076 number for a
> pay-as-you-go based phone for a starting fee of €5. However I am unsure
> what the cost is for people that call me, I seen on boards.ie
> <http://boards.ie> that eircom and BT do not include call to 076 numbers
> in there bundles.
>> Obviously you have to pay for any mobile forwarding minutes if they
> are not inclusive in any bundle you have.
>>> I'm unaware if there is an extra fee for divert when busy, I didn't
> think there was. Will check it out with o2.
>> you wanted a voice-to-text transcription.
>> Yep thats correct, all I need to complete the method that I was trying
> to do is a Irish based number that I can forward to the google number to
> avoid paying international call rates.
>>>>>> On 6 April 2011 17:31, Kevin Brennan <kevin.brennan at redsquared.com> <mailto:kevin.brennan at redsquared.com>> wrote:
>> Apologies, re-read your email - you wanted a voice-to-text
> transcription. As an alternative to google voice there are various
> solutions for speech-to-text with Asterisk, however I have never
> used them so can't comment on how good/bad they are. Perhaps others
> on the list have experimented ?
>> /KB
>>>> On 06/04/2011 16:40, imduffy wrote:
>> Hi Kevin,
> Thanks for your reply,
> The point in this was to achieve a free system of getting voicemail
> transcripted to email/sms.
>> On 5 April 2011 09:14, Kevin
> Brennan<kevin.brennan at redsquared.com> <mailto:kevin.brennan at redsquared.com>> wrote:
>> What is the point of this ?
> If you want to collect voicemail via email just use one of
> the Irish VoIP
> providers.
> /KB
>>>> On 04/04/2011 20:54, imduffy wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
> I was hoping to use google voice for voice mail however
> they are still not
> available in Ireland.
> I googled for a workaround and found this:
>>http://eirepreneur.blogs.com/eirepreneur/2010/01/how-to-get-google-voice-working-in-ireland.html>> It uses an American skype number to activate the google
> voice account and
> then diverts a skype irish number to google voice. My
> issue with this is
> skype numbers aren't free.
>> I have managed to get my google voice account activated
> by using
> iptel.organd
> ipkall.com <http://ipkall.com> to setup a SIP account
> with an American based number. However,
> I
> am unable to find any service to provide free Irish
> numbers for the divert
> to Google voice part. Does anybody have an alternative idea?
>> Regards,
> Ian Duffy
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