Raspberry Pi voice recognition and SMS

[crapshot]

Hey all, I was woundering if it would be possable to make a raspberry pi use voice recognition to ask it to lets say check your email, or my main thing i want it to be able to do is read out texts*sms* if i asked it to,
By reading out text i mean like reading incoming text messages off your phone?

Would you think this is possible?

[mikerr]

Text to speech (reading out email) is much easier than speech recognition.

Text to speech with festival:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 2&p=133588

Speech recognition with Julius / pocket sphinx
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 7&p=131918

Also possible with google api if your pi will have internet access at all times.