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 ...

USA TODAY columnist Steven Petrow offers advice about digital etiquette. Q: Why don't people listen to their voice mail anymore? It's annoying when I leave someone a message only to have them call me ...

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 ...

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 ...