GotVoice provides a rather interesting service: they retrieve voicemails off of the various voicemail systems and provide you with a single, unified view of your voicemail. I've written about them previously. If you're not quite ready for the one-number approach of GrandCentral, it's a nice way to web-enable your voicemail from a few phones.

Now the folks at GotVoice have added the ability to transcribe voicemail messages into SMS. The caller leaves a message as usual. When GotVoice retrieves the voicemail, it is interpreted into text words and sent to you as an SMS. I have no idea how well this works, but it sounds like a nifty idea!