Speech to text...

In the amazing advancement of technology, there comes another breakthrough. With the popularity of text messaging, making it easier and faster seems to be the next logical step. So now instead of fumbling with a small keypad, or worse yet a tiny number pad, you can now write your text on a screen with a stylus and text your friends with your written word. Yes you will need a fancy new PDA style phone, but what a great step forward that is!

So it would seem the next logical step after that would be to just eliminate the stylus, and turn the sender's spoken word into a text message. So there would be no typing, no writing with a stylus. Your spoken word would be instantly transmitted as a text message for your desired recipient to read on his phone.

And maybe to avoid the inconvenience of the recipient to have to look at his phone screen to read the message, maybe they will soon invent a program that will turn the text message back into spoken word and the output would then be an audible text message for the listener. It would kind of be like just talking to each other...