Indeed, the blog even has a demo of the Google Voice desktop client here to prove it exists. However, TechCrunch became convinced months ago that Google was using the Gizmo5 assets to build a desktop client version for Google Voice, which also features voice mail transcription and several other features that involve a Web browser. “The direction in which we are going to keep working is to use the Web, which is probably the best UI there is in the world, to give you more control and personalization over your communications.” “We designed Google Voice to be endpoint-agnostic and we certainly want it to be accessible from any type of endpoint, not just phones,” Paquet told eWEEK June 21. In an interview with eWEEK about the broad availability of Google Voice, Google Voice Product Manager Vincent Paquet declined to say how Google was using the Gizmo5 assets it acquired. Gizmo5, which Google used to enable users to connect calls from desktop to desktop and desktop to phone, is an alternative to the popular Skype VOIP service, which boasts almost 500 million users. Google in November 2009 acquired Gizmo5, maker of a VOIP (voice over IP) application that let users make phone calls over the Web.
While that release is a Web-based program that lets users route calls to home, work and mobile phones through a special number provided by Google, TechCrunch has tantalized users for months with the idea that the company is building a desktop client of the software. Google just made free phone management application Google Voice available to the general public June 22
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