Need text to speech and speech recognition tools for Linux

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Published on 2009-05-18T12:33:00Z Indexed on 2010/06/09 13:12 UTC
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I'm planning on writing a program for Linux that uses text to speech and speech recognition. What are the best tools/libraries for this? Should I use Windows instead to be able to use better tools? The tools need to be easily callable from a console or C program.

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