ETel: Yahoo! Building IVR Infrastructure?

This story about Yahoo! hiring away the R&D group of Nuance is very interesting. Yahoo! recently released Yahoo! Messenger with Voice (beating Google Talk, incidentally), bought IVR features as well. If Yahoo!'s doing it, you can be sure Microsoft and Google will be at it as well. Life's going to get very interesting in the voice application space, hopefully around the time of ETel (which just opened registration).