Google throws Voice a lifeline with addition of two new personal paid tiers

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TL;DRGoogle Voice has added two new personal plan options.Voice Starter offers access to support and extra features for $10 a month.Voice Standard adds Gemini tools to what you get with Starter for $20 a month.Google Voice is easily one of the company’s most overlooked services. Updates are few and far between, it desperately needs to be modernized with RCS support, and it’s long felt like Google could be about to kill it off at any moment. Today we’ve got some good, if not potentially a little controversial news about Voice, as Google overhauls its offerings with two new personal paid Voice plans.So far, we’ve basically had two main tiers for Voice: free access for personal accounts, letting you conveniently connect all your devices to the same phone number, and paid Workspace access for businesses and institutions looking for a robust multi-user solution. When we do see a new Voice feature arrive, like the Gemini-powered note taking we learned about last month, it tends to be restricted to that paid Workspace side of things.