Make a phone call with Google Voice

Y'all can make domestic and international calls from your Google Voice number on desktop or mobile.

Call someone with Google Voice

Important:

  • To telephone call someone from your computer, yous must use one of these browsers:
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Safari
  • You can't make emergency calls with Google Vocalism. To make an emergency call, use your device'south phone app.
  1. Go to Google Vox.
  2. On the left, in the "Calls" tab, betoken to the name of a person in your recent calls listing and click Call Calls.

Optional: You can also choose one of these methods in the Calls Calls, Messages Messages, or Voicemail Voicemail tabs:

Tips:

  • To show the keypad, at the bottom right, click Show keypad.
  • For international calls, enter the country lawmaking before the phone number. For example, for Brazil, enter 55 before the phone number.
  • At the pinnacle right, the "Call as" field shows your Google Voice number.

Check your residue

  1. Go to Google Vocalism
  2. At the summit right, click Settings "".
  3. On the left, click Payments.
  4. Nether "Electric current balance," view your electric current balance.

Add money to your account

  1. Go to Google Voice.
  2. At the top right, click Settings .
  3. On the left, click Payments.
  4. Next to "Electric current residue," click Add credit.
  5. Select an corporeality and then click Add credit.
  6. Select a payment method and then click Buy. You'll get a confirmation email.

Optional: Next to "Automobile-recharge," select what to practice when your balance falls below $2.00 USD:

  • $ten, $25, $50 USD: Automatically add this corporeality of credit. Later you select your payment method, click Relieve.
  • Notify me via email: Get an e-mail reminder when your balance is low.
  • Off: Don't automatically add together more credit to your account.

Tips: If y'all're not certain how much credit to buy, yous can find the calling rate for a country. Side by side to "Calling rates," click Look up Search and enter the country you want to call. Rates vary and are charged per infinitesimal.

Confirm your paid phone call uses Google Vocalism​

If the call isn't free, Google Vox sends you a message. The message shows how much the call costs or that the phone call is being routed through Google Voice. Learn more about the toll of a Google Voice phone call.

If you don't get a message, your call doesn't use Google Vocalisation and your carrier can charge you lot.

Tip: Check that a contempo app update didn't alter your call settings.

Call someone from a URL with Google Voice

  1. Sign in to your Google Account.
  2. In the accost bar, enter "https://voice.google.com/u/0/calls?a=nc,%2Bphonenumber".
    Make sure to supplant phonenumber with the number you want to call without hyphens.

Tips:

  • For example, to phone call 1-800-555-0111, enter https://phonation.google.com/u/0/calls?a=nc,%2B18005550111
  • For international calls, include the country code.

Know how much a phone call costs

  • When you're calling from the United states, almost all Google Voice calls to the Us and Canada are free.
  • Calls to a few places in the U.s. and Canada toll ane cent per minute USD, or the listed charge per unit for your local currency.
  • Calls to places exterior the US are at listed rates.
  • Acquire more about calling rates.
  • Domestic and international calls use minutes from your phone program, and you might be charged long-distance rates.
  • If you have a US phone number and make a phone call when yous're in some other country/region, you lot're charged international rates.
  • Make Google Voice calls over the net.

Tip: If your internet connection isn't stable, you get a notification to use minutes from your telephone plan, which may include carrier telephone call charges. If you don't want to switch to a carrier telephone call, on the notification, select Abolish.

Related links

  • Gear up phones to make & receive Google Voice calls
  • Set up bug with Google Voice calls
  • Use one-click dialing on Google Vocalisation

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