Is there text-to-speech and speech recognition for Ubuntu 8.10?

[David Fox]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:43 AM, Larry Sheilds <larryesu at charter.net> wrote:
> *From a terminal, type espeak, hopefully it is all ready installed, then
> type the text you want it to say...
>
> It works using Intrepid...

Not here.

dfox at newbox:~$ espeak "This is a test"
PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_WRONLY
PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -10000
PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_WRONLY
PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -10000
PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_WRONLY
PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -10000
PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_WRONLY
PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -10000
PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_WRONLY
PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -10000
PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_WRONLY
PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -10000

Not that this is a big deal, since I never use espeak. Sound otherwise
works. /dev/dsp has the right permissions.
And I'm a member of the 'audio' group.



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