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

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

David Fox wrote:
> 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

Looks like problems with some file, look at syslog.

I like the sound from festival a bit better:

carl at cjfh3:~$ echo "I am very good at this" | festival --tts
carl at cjfh3:~$

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