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

Did you checked the HMM-based speech synthesis for text-to-speech. You can find the free demo on the website http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/. Installation will be little tedious.