In our "have to have it now" society, services such as YouMail are a welcome relief. Featured in publications such as Newsweek and the New York Times, YouMail is a voice mail system that lets you see your voice mails in e-mail or text message form. By replacing your current voice mail service with YouMail, each message is not only retained as a voice mail, but it also transcribes and sends it as a text message and an e-mail. This makes it easy to decipher between urgent and non-urgent calls without actually talking to the caller.
Voicemail transcribed as an e-mail works and looks the same as any other e-mail, allowing you to reply, forward and save messages. The same goes for voice mails that are transcribed as text messages. You can reply or forward a message to any caller without actually speaking to them.