With the rise of e-mail and instant text messaging, the communications workhorse of the past 30 years - voice mail - is finding itself increasingly unloved and avoided. But new speech-recognition and ...

As our lives get busier and we become more reliant on text messages and e-mail, voice mail is starting to seem a tad archaic (not to mention impractical if you're sitting in a business meeting or loud ...

Google has begun testing a service that will make transcripts of voice-mail messages and make them searchable. For now, Google will only offer voice-mail transcription to existing customers of ...

In a typical Web voice mail service, your messages are stored online and you access them through a Web page. Your voice mails are arranged within a user interface like that of a webmail in-box. To ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. Why listen ...

Google has begun testing a service that will make transcripts of voice-mail messages and make them searchable. For now, Google will only offer voice-mail transcription to existing customers of ...