On 03/29/2011 01:21 PM Stephen Harris wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:08:33PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >> GV has been around for years - but previously you had to get an invite >> from an existing user or go on a waiting list. Now you can just sign up >> and get a free number which you can send where you want with/without >> screening and when it acts as an answering machine it transcribes the >> message and emails it to you. Recent additions are that you can make >> (and I think answer) calls from your computer while signed in to your >> gmail account and if you have Sprint Cell service you can use that > > With the right software and hardware (asterisk and an ATA) you can even > use the conjunction of google voice and google chat to act as a "real" > phone line. Indeed I just wrote up a process :-) > http://sweh.spuddy.org/gvoice/ > > But I think that's getting a little off-topic :-) OT OK. So how does this conglomeration work? Say I have an OpenMoko phone (openmoko.org) and connect to google voice on the web... can I talk like a human on a landline? What phone number do the other humans get... to call me? ATA means https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/AT_Attachment or https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Analog_telephone_adapter or something else?