Before passing on the phone duties to my sister-in-law, I
   depended on voice-mail for our business.* In fact, I preferred
   to let things to go voice-mail. Why?* Google Voice. Google Voice
   transcribes what they say to text, and emails or txts it to me,
   wherever I am.* I never had to actually listen to anybody....
   unless they didn't speak clearly or something. Google Voice will
   probably be one of those Labs experiments that will eventually
   just poof disappear.* But I got about 7-8 years straight of
   archived voice to text transcriptions of voicemails saved for
   the business - thousands of them, along with corresponding MP3
   files archived. For archivalists like myself, it is (and
   probably will be a was) a nicely done system.