[clug-talk] Speech?

[Shawn]

I'm looking at playing with speech synthesis and speech recognition.

I have this idea that I'd like to be able to tell my computer to "check 
mail" and have it open the mail client.  Or "browse web" and have it 
open a browser.  And perhaps have my mail, or web/rss feeds read to me 
while I continue doing other work.

I've found this page: http://linux-sound.org/speech.html.  But I'm 
curious if anyone has any recommendations on what software I should try 
out or avoid.

Thanks.

Shawn