A couple of O'Reilly Radar articles came across my desk today. One about an NSF grant to translate American Sign Language to verbal speech and another about Google's real reason for the GOOG-411 service. Tim O'Reilly finds the truly multi-modal interface of gesture recognition to speech synthesis interesting, and he thinks Google's real reason for the 411 service is to harvest voice data. Both are short and interesting reads. It's on the horizon, folks.