We still have a lot of work to do on the voice recognition software (which is mainly John's pet project) so the in-depth description will have to wait for a while. I would guess that voice recognition will be considered a beta test element of the new player when it first ships (maybe there will be a "safe" consumer release that doesn't incorporate it right away).

The multi-lingual element is something I was just thinking about a few moments ago. Some elements of the system are speaker independent, so it would be necessary for us to either provide alternative nets for different languages or to offer the option to make them speaker dependent for non-english speaking clients (and for those in the deep south of the USA - joke).

If we resume this conversation in a month or so I would guess we'll be able to fill in a lot more detail then.

Rob