This article in the Economist magazine, entitled, “A Web of Sound: Talk About That”, reminded me that the legend of using VoiceXML to speech-enable the World Wide Web is alive, well and targeting the greater good by making Web sites more accessible to the illiterate. The article’s author credits Guruduth Banavar, the director of IBM’s India Research Laboratory, with undertaking a project to make it easier to develop so called “voice sites” which enable callers to navigate the Web and retrieve personal information.