This is so cool. I'm playing with Tellme Studio, the developer portion of Tellme. For those who haven't used Tellme before, call 1-800-555-TELL and give it a try. It's a completely voice-driven information portal that lets you get driving directions, telephone numbers (and it will connect you for free, even long distance), stock quotes, weather info, horoscopes and all the rest.

Tellme Studio lets people who can write vxml (or who, for the chance to do really geeky cool stuff, will learn to!) create their own Tellme extension. I've been learning a bit of vxml and it's really cool how flexible the system is (and how good their voice-recognition engine is, over the phone no less)! Anyhow, I know some people (Osil8 and others) are making voiceBlogs using the technology, but it's really suited for interactive applications. I'm wowed, and I'll see what cool stuff I can make with it as soon as clases let up. I will, of course, share.