I hadn't either, at least until the other day when I stumbled across voiceemotion.com. It provides, as the name suggests, an application to be used with "voice" and from what I gather, just as we use graphic smileys in our standard IM (Instant Messenger) text conversations, vEmotion (free) allows us to use what appears to be emotions that generate sound into our voice conversations or we can even set background music... strange but true ;)

It appears both parties don't need to be using vEmotion, only the sender needs to install it which is a grand idea as nothing is worse than having some funky new application you want to test drive and then struggling to find another user or worse still, having to persuade someone that they too should clutter up their computer with something you know little or nothing about that may or may not be a 5 minute wonder *blush* Another vEmotion perk, it appears it can be used with many of the big voice enabled IMs (Instant Messengers) like MSN® Messenger, Google™ Talk, Yahoo!® Messenger, AIM™, Skype™ and QQ which seems a seriously cool idea as it removes the need to download yet another IM.