Need text to speech and speech recognition tools for Linux

Question

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

Answer 1

For speech recognition there exists very little for linux. I were only aware of one apparently decent option, something IBM released some years ago but later was no longer made available (anyone knows if this ViaVoice SDK is still possible to get hold of from anywhere?). There are some more information about possible options at wikipedia.