Kudos to Google for this new initiative: Google Voice invitations for military personnel. They’re giving away free priority invitations to their powerful new telephone management system, to all military service members.

Google Voice lets you use one number for all your phones, gives you free US long distance and very cheap international calls, and has some very cool voicemail features like speech-to-text conversion that is sent to your email or SMS. It’s an ideal way for military personnel overseas to keep in touch with family and friends.

I have an invitation myself, but haven’t started using it yet. The only drawback is that in order to really use it correctly, you have to set up a new phone number — and everyone has to forget your old numbers and use only the new one.

Previously at LGF:
Google Voice: A New Approach to Voice Communications

UPDATE at 8/4/09 11:03:38 am:

If you aren’t in the military, you can sign up for an invitation to Google Voice here.