Have been looking for an alternative to Google Voice for years. I have been completely unable to find something that does all of the following:
1) allows me to recieve texts to my computer and my phone at the same time for a reasonable price (twilio is much too expensive to use for personal use)
2) MMS, group texting
3) "transparent" call forwarding, essentially by spoofing CID's
4) speech to text voicemail
from a single phone number.
A full blown VoIP system like FreePBX comes closer than anything else, but still falls quite short.
If anyone has any insight into this that would be amazing.