A partnership between a couple of tech heavyweights should go a long way in helping not only moving voice dictation software more mainstream, but also moving more users into the VoIP arena. A clip from a recent article from IT Business goes a long way in describing the potential of what these companies are working on:

In a demo, Microsoft showed how users would be able to use voice commands to access their calendar in Outlook and dictate a message to be sent if a meeting time had to be changed. The two companies will offer other technologies that will allow mixed use of voice, e-mail, instant messaging and video, Ballmer said.

Although many users have adapted their typing to nearly the speed of conversation, many IM users typically use shortened or slang words, almost to the point of an entire generation being dumbed-down, at least in my opinion. With users able to quickly dictate messages into emails, IM’s, and documents and memos, will users soon lose the ability to type, too?

U mite think ‘wtf am I talking about?’, but ur probably not 2 sure what this msg says, either. np. g2g, brb, will post soon. ttyl!

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