Turn Voicemail into Email

But in this case I picked a real gem.

Thanks to those excellent guys at The Next Web I picked up an invitation to use Ribbit, a competitor for Skype currently in restricted role out.

The big deal about Ribbit is it replaces my voicemail, taking the message, transcribing it into text and then sending it to me via SMS and Email. And IT WORKS.

But there’s a lot more to Ribbit available with the web app – basically all the stuff you’d want Skype to do, but it doesn’t.

Something I’m going to try out is inter-working with Front Office Box. There’s already some integration with Salesforce and Oracle CRM On Demand and we can work it into Front Office Box now, with auto-forward.

I’ve yet to try it but know this will work. I’ll set a filter in Gmail to forward any message from Ribbit to my XXXXXXX@frontofficebox.com address.
That way my voicemail will get transcribed into text and sent to my Front Office Box, showing up in my Dashboard. Meantime I’ll get an SMS message to let me know it’s there.

Now that will be really coooool!

BTW, any FOB users wanting to try out Ribbit should let me know. I have a small number of invitations to use – first come, first served.