"Basically, any service on the web today can be speech-enabled...E-commerce is also a hot area, only they're calling it 'voice-commerce', or v-commerce. So you might be ordering from an online bookstore and once your order is completed the system could ask if you want to hear of a similar book by the same author. You say 'yes' and off you go again."
—Geoff Long, "So you thought you'd heard everything? You could soon be listening to the web," The Bangkok Post, April 26, 2000