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As you likely know, I have a particular aversion to just throwing up videos for the sake of “instant” blogging. Yet, for the first time, I’ve done it twice in a row.  Not really sure why.  I guess I’m more observing and absorbing rather than being in a place to provide any reflections.  I’ve only been a Google Wave participant for a week but, well to quote Fergie, “I’ve got a feeling….”  I think Google Wave could really be a communications game changer.

I’m swimming in the newest technologies, navigating the firehose as they say, looking ahead beyond the Wave.  Seems everyone is sort of up in arms about the effectiveness of real time typing….. but what I’m thinking about is, well, to pull it straight from Wikipedia “Speech synthesis – A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal language text into speech; other systems render symbolic linguistic representations like phonetic transcriptions into speech.”

Omnivores – aren’t we right around the corner from a voice markup language, SSML (Tesseract has a disabled code for a handwriting markup language)?  Oh, where are my voice recognition futurists…. @terrystorch @JohnSaddington @samsoffes @tonysteward @alldevelopers  @anyone?  Where are we?  Is Google Wave as significant as it seems?

For inspiration you can see Lifehacker – Google Wave Best Use Cases.