There have been oodles of reports about voice issues today. The talk session with Biz Stone (of Twitter) at Dr Dobbs Island had to revert from voice to text today when the voice system simply failed to perform.
Linden Lab are announcing a short-notice maintenance downtime for the voice system in a few hours, from 2AM SLT (US Pacific) to 3AM SLT. Sunday's voice performance after the last maintenance downtime was reportedly much improved, but reports are that it has significantly degraded since then.
First, it's not really in dispute that the 
There's an easy way for Linden Lab to make role-players in Second Life happier. Role-players are mostly all about the text, you see, so a couple more textual enhancements would really increase take-up in that crowd. After all, few of them are used to the 
