Google has upped its game by introducing Google Voice, a brand new phone service that could challenge the likes of Skype and other phone services. This new service from Google will allow customers to make very cheap international calls and adds the speech-to-text feature for voicemail.

Since Google acquired the phone firm GrandCentral which gave its customers a lifelong universal phone number, they stepped up to the plate by giving you Google Voice. Google Voice is a stunning new update to GrandCentral which Google bought for an estimated £36m in 2007.

We posted an article earlier of all the new features which seem pretty impressive; the question is “Can Google Voice challenge the likes of Skype and similar firms?