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

[Samuel Rohde]

David Fox- Thanks for the espeak, it works great! Do you know of any speech recognition softwares that are like Windows speech recognition?



----- Original Message ----
> From: David Fox <dfox94085 at gmail.com>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 3, 2008 10:01:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Is there text-to-speech and speech recognition for Ubuntu 8.10?
> 
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:43 AM, Larry Sheilds 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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