Technology.am (May 8, 2009) —YouMail is improving its voicemail experience, making you more productive in the process. It allows you to record per-contact and per-group greetings, receive voicemail via cell phone, email and web site, and get your voicemails transcribed.

YouMail provides excellent setup instructions specific to your phone. After setup, YouMail lets you select how you want to receive alerts.

It is easy to Sign up. Just enter your cell phone number into the YouMail web site to receive an activation code sent to your phone. Copy the code into the web app, and you’re in.

YouMail sends a voicemail alert by email. This service has three options for checking voicemail. You can program the “1″ key on your cell phone, dial the YouMail phone number that appears in all new voicemail alerts, or use visual voicemail by going to Youmail from a web-capable cell phone. Using visual voicemail, you can view the caller’s info including location, audio file, transcribed message and photo, if available.

To check voicemail at m.youmail.com on a BlackBerry, is one of YouMail’s unique features. It has the ability to record custom greetings for individuals as well as groups. This feature is great for folks like who work with a diversity of clients and teams.

YouMail’s web interface where everything is free except for the voice transcription service, which varies in price, depending on how many messages you will have transcribed per month. Paying users can receive voicemail transcribed into text messages, emails or both, along with an MP3 file of the original audio.