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

[Knapp]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Ulf Rompe <Ulf.Rompe at icem.com> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 05.11.2008, 11:14 +0100 schrieb Ulf Rompe:
>> You might try to run it with padsp as a wrapper to make it use
>> PulseAudio.
>
> ...while the package alsa-oss contains a similar wrapper for plain Alsa
> called aoss.
>
> [x] ulf
> --

How do you do that?
Thanks,
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Douglas E Knapp

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