Samuel S Chessman wroted: > > Actually festival is text to speech. > > Opensource sphinx from CMU is in debian, use perlbox > http://www.perlbox.org/ for desktop integration. thank you, this is brilliant. i'd noticed Sphinx but couldnt work out how i was supposed to use it for desktop apps! i'm glad to see perlbox. there seems to be a plethora of text to speech apps for the visually impaired - but a dearth of speech to text. perhaps its more difficult to build? thanks again m~ -- |\ _,,,---,,_ ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ HTTP 503: Too Busy |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL .::. www.iriXx.org .::. www.copyleftmedia.org.uk .::. gnupg key ID: AEB7A31E