#I♥HDvoice and there are multiple reasons. Jeff Pulver provides a very good summary here in this video – so I won’t repeat what is already a good message.

However, I will add this – all of us in the industry need to work at raising the profile of HD voice – so that all telephone users understand what is HD voice. The fact that we can’t always understand each other on the telephone is one glaring reason. So today, GIPS is reaching out to spread the word on HD voice and you can help too.

Let’s reach out to twitterers, colleagues, competitors, facebook friends IM buddies and compile a list of Mondegreens and spoonerisms.

What’s a Mondegreen or spoonerism I hear you say? A mondegreen is a phrase that is misheard or a misinterpretation of a phrase. A spoonerism is an error in speech or deliberate play on words in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched.  We’ve all heard them. Rude, fun, bizarre – they run the gamut.

I plan to compile the best Mondegreens and spoonerisms and weave them into a blog topic that we can share around to promote the need for HD voice.

It’s an easy way to reach out to twitterers (I suppose that’s a word now) and bloggers and it would be great to see if we can raise the profile of HD voice through Twitter and get people talking about the need for huge improvements in our telecommunication with the technology that exists today.

So no matter how inane, it would be great if you could contribute, retweet #I♥HDvoice with a phrase – and what it was supposed to say.

To submit your tweet to GIPS on twitter click here.

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Ok, so all pun intended if you twitter are you a twit? I suspect if you are reading this blog then you are not but there are a lot of tweeters out there who don’t seem to be the full tweet. Twittering has received both good and bad press – and it’s possible to point to the worst and also some of the best in twittering. However, each to his own opinion.

Here at GIPS we tweet because it’s no longer enough to rely on distribution through traditional media. There are more channels to reach out to both businesses and consumers. Naked Pizza (if the health benefits are true) is one shining example of how twitter can really add value to business – stay twittered, I’m sure it’s going to be a big hit.

One of our goals at GIPS is to continue educating people on the value of HD voice. Twitter is another channel in which we reach out to people because there is a real opportunity for communication to be vastly improved. Along with HD Connect – an industry consortium that GIPS is a founding member of – GIPS is actively engaged in spreading the word, or perhaps I should say (HD) voice!

Earlier this week, Communications Daily, a Washington DC staple for policy wonks, wrote about HD Voice. While Washington will always have two-sides to an argument, there is an indomitable force within industry pushing HD voice. As In-Stat analyst, Keith Nissen said in this recent article, “the market for HD Voice phones could reach $3 billion annually within five years, with the U.S. market starting to take off this year.” The HD connect group is pushing for the White House to be HD Voice enabled – wouldn’t that be a great thing if President Obama wasn’t looking for a source of cheese! (This slide was borrowed from Polycom CTO’s Jeff Rodman’s presentation at the last HD Communications summit.)

HD voice really can be a force for change, so try it. If you really want to experience it now, try googletalk, Nimbuzz, Yahoo instant messenger, AIM or Gadu-Gadu and perhaps you can pass on the message that you too can hear the difference.