I signed up for Grand Central years ago and was happy to receive a number about a month ago. I loved being able to select the number of my choice and the application options are very exciting. My problem is distributing the number. I’ve had the same mobile, home & work numbers for a very long time and I find explaining why I have a new number to family, friends and business associates to be time consuming and somewhat awkward..

So I’ve begun giving out my GV number only to new acquaintances and then adding them to my Google contacts and configuring options for that individual depending on their relationship to me.

The voice transcription does work well enough and I’ve found the entire experience to be relatively smooth. I see a big future for this application if I can get my number distributed to more contacts.