I see these two as being related as they are both - to my mind - a function of the use of memory available as part of the gesture:
1) extend the allowable chat text from 128 characters to 256
2) extend the number of steps from 16 (or whatever it is now) to something a bit more reasonable (24, 32?)
Just as some background. I'm looking to using gestures to delivery education classes. As most of the class is scripted, its helpful to have longer lines and a few more steps as part of a logic sequence of instructions seeing as I have to insert a wait step between each chat step for people to reasonably be able to keep up.