Question about Google Voice/Visual Voicemail

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Is anyone else using Google Voice (GV) over the stock visual voice mail? It has taken me awhile to get GV set just the way I want it to work. Really...the only benefit right now to my setup is the free text conversion offered by Google. A downside though is that by having it setup my text messages are now lagging behind a few seconds after they were actually sent.

Anyway...the way I have it setup is I turned off notifications in the GV app and I now get notified of voice mails by text. I also have GV forward my texts to my phone. So as a result, I get texts to my phone through the native app, visual voice mail via google which I can now check on line, and voice messages converted to text and sent to my phone in a text (which thus notifies me of a new VM).

Anyone find anything that works "better" or can anyone think of any flaws in my plans here lol.