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VoxOx Is Another Way to Get Free Google Voice on Your Desktop

LifeHacker: "Lifehacker came up with a good way to get free Google Voice calls on your desktop with Sipgate, but Sipgate seems to have run out of free numbers, rending that method broken (for now). VoxOx can do something similar.

Here's the deal: When you sign up for VoxOx you get 1 free number that you can use to hook in to your Google Voice with. You also get free incoming calls (which means incoming AND outgoing calls with Google Voice, cause GV always is the one to call your phone), incoming texts and incoming faxes. Outgoing calls (if you're dialing straight from the VoxOx client), outgoing texts and outgoing faxes cost money. So while you can get incoming texts to your VoxOx account, responding using that IM window is a bad idea, since you get charged about a penny per text."

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PSA: You can control YouTube playback with OK Google voice commands

Google Now has a tendency to add voice commands without most people noticing. Besides the few listed in-app, Google hides most of its commands, perhaps the most useful ones.

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Google stores all "Ok Google" voice searches. Here's how you can play and delete them

Here is how to listen to and delete your "Ok Google" voice searches.

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Speed-Racer3101d ago

Well this isn't scary at all. The price for convenience indeed.

annoyedgamer3100d ago (Edited 3100d ago )

And this surprises you? I's bet the data is in the servers at the NSA and on certain individuals personal e-mail servers at home too. And not to mention for sale to the highest bidder.

Sarick3100d ago

Mine was off since I joined google. I clicked and nothing was there :)

-Mezzo-3100d ago

I have it activated but i almost never use it.

-Mezzo-3100d ago

This is creepy as hell. listening into other peoples searches.

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How to listen to, and delete, your Google Now voice history

Google might be eavesdropping more than you had originally imagined, though not on purpose.

Since June 2015, Google has been storing personal data on its users on a website, where users only have access to their own information. The feature works a bit like a digital diary, storing web searches, YouTube history, and (you guessed it!) Google Voice Search history.

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gizmig3101d ago

That is a pretty nice information stored in there. Google must have been surely using this information to develop an AI to spy on whole world.

garrettbobbyferguson3101d ago

Good thing I've used google now about three times in total.