Talk is not really cheap

Just came across this post on GigaOm about Skype teaming up with SpinVox. I looked at SpinVox when I was trying to find a solution to the following problem: How do you get the thoughts of those people published on the net who talk rather than write? SpinVox has a blogging solution that lets you dial a number and leave your message. The message is then converted by SpinVox solution into text and sent to your blog page.

Using speech recognition to get the talkers to publish their thoughts is definitely one of the cost effective ways to achieve this. But speech recongition cannot transcribe words correctly, certainly not long speeches. I digged a little deeper into possible soltuions for this imminent Internet service, and came very close to submitting a business plan to Sequoia. I will on Saturday share some of the notes I made in the process. I think talkers deserve to be publsihed just as bloggers do.