Voice blogging continues to evolve. Still very early days. I am bullish but I think certain things need to be done in order to get this phenomenon going. First of all, we need a completely different voice blog publishing platform (I will revisit this some time later in the year). Movable Type and Wordpress are optimized for textual stuff. Some of the add on applications that could be added to that voice blog publishing platform could be things like transcription application i.e. when you click on the voice file, embedded in the player will be some transcription buttons (controlled by hot keys or footpedal) that let the listener pause, play, rewind etc while making notes. Manual transcription of premium voice content will be inevitable.

By the way, I have actually not seen a good transcription add-on to Windows Media Player and Real Player. I need to make notes when listening to conference calls. But I can't do it properly. Anyway, the idea I wanted to float today is somewhat different and a simple one. If companies like Snapvine could add on a Karaoke client, let me record my song, and then let me upload my song on my web, that would be great. I mean I really would love to try something like that. There are a number of singing talent shows wherever you switch on the TV these days. US, UK, Europe, India, …., not to mention East Asia where people are absolutely crazy about this stuff. Karaoke blogs could help promote new talent. And participants don’t have to travel to TV studios and auditions. You can do it right from your bedroom. And while you are at it, you could have a separate site that aggregates the Karaoke blogs, kind of Yahoo for online Karaoke.