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Okay - picture this.
You’re driving down the Interstate on a very long and tiring car ride.
Your mind wanders in and out of one topic after another.
Then, suddenly, you’re struck with inspiration for a brilliant blog entry.
Welcome to the futuristic world of voice blogging.
Does this sound like science fiction?
Well it’s not.
This system is inconvenient and cumbersome.
First, from your Google Voice account, go toSettingsand then tap on “Voicemail & SMS”.
Avoid free email accounts that don’t have POP3 access.
For this system to work, the address you choose needs to have POP3 enabled.
For Wordpress, I use thePostie pluginfor this purpose.
Download and install whatever plugin or tool you use for your blog.
In the case of Postie, once it’s installed, you just click onSettingsandPostie.
You insert the POP3 tweaks just as you would when you set up any email client.
You’re ready for voice blogging!
In the following test, I simply picked up my home phone and dialed my Google Voice phone number.
After getting to voicemail, I left my “blog entry” in the form of a voice message.
My message was as follows:
This is a test of using google voice to post at my blog.
Hopefully google voice can transcribe my voice accurately.
Let’s see how well google voice can do.
Now, under the Postie mailserver tweaks, I’ve set Postie to check my email account hourly.
Almost immediately, I saw the following post appear on my blog.
