[ale] Voice recognition and synthesis

[fnbrier at gmail.com (Frederick N. Brier)]

I installed Edinburgh's Festival (Speech Synthesis System) several 
months back and played with it.  It was fun, and my 8-1/2 year old son 
and his friend were entertained.  Now I am looking at CMU Sphinx (Voice 
Recognition).  I read about Gnome-Voice-Control.  It is a dialogue 
system to control the GNOME Desktop.  Has anyone else played with any of 
these?  Is there any sort of overall strategy for integrating them into 
applications so they are not stepping on each other?  Such as using an 
event bus, application focus, or prioritization and queuing of voice 
messages to be played?  If so, is there a set of packages that play well 
with each other and others to be avoided?

Fred