Within the next week or so I’ll be posting about .pdf annotation apps. There are a bunch of new apps that were recently released that I’ve been testing and a few of them look very promising.

In the meantime I wanted to share a new iPhone app with you that I stumbled across last night. It’s called Yap Voicemail. Yap essentially “Google Voiceifies” your iPhone’s voicemail.

Voice messages are transcribed using their speech recognition system, and you also receive an audio file of the message. The transcribed messages and audio file arrive within a minute or so and you can then forward the transcription and audio file of the message via email. 

You can choose to be notified of new mesages via email or an iPhone notification.

Because the messages are transcribed, they’re easily searchable as well.

I like this app because I keep my Google Voice and cell phone numbers separate. I use my Google Voice phone number as my contact number for my online presence and use my cell phone number for business and personal use. For sometime now I’ve thought how great it would be if my iPhone voice mail system had the functionality of my Google Voice system. And, now, with this app, it does!

I highly recommend this app. It makes the iPhone’s voicemail system more flexible and accessible. And, best of all, it’s free. You can access it in iTunes here.

Related articles

• Yap Converts Voicemails to Text for iPhone (eon.businesswire.com)
• Yap Transcribes Voicemails On Your iPhone For Free (techcrunch.com)
• Yap Brings Free Voicemail Transcription to iPhone (gigaom.com)
• Yap Brings Free Voicemail Transcription to iPhone (nytimes.com)