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

[NoOp]

On 11/04/2008 07:37 AM, Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
> 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:~$
> 

Both (espeak & festival) work for me in 8.04.1