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[18:51:50 CDT(-0500)] <travis_84_> wow ya that last one will be vital
[18:53:55 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> http://simonmacdonald.blogspot.com/2011/05/text-to-speech-plugin-for-phonegap.html
[18:54:03 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> This guy has a bit of code that you may be able to springboard off
[18:55:44 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> Pretty good!
[18:55:47 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> it looks quite active
[18:55:47 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins/tree/master/Android/TTS
[18:55:51 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> Here is its current house
[18:56:19 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> And there's a vestigial kind of speech recogniser too
[18:56:19 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins/tree/master/Android/SpeechRecognizer
[19:05:34 CDT(-0500)] <travis_84_> alright, thanks for the added resources and direction. Here I was headed down the Java path...
[19:07:41 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> That's ok .... it's a path which we all loved once : P
[19:07:47 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> Back in the 90s, when Java was still cool....
[19:08:01 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> And you will still get to write a little Java 
[19:08:12 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> At least... you will write a couple of files with a .java extension
[19:08:40 CDT(-0500)] <travis_84_> we'll see
[19:09:08 CDT(-0500)] <travis_84_> I'd rather use js so I don't have to compile all the time
[19:11:01 CDT(-0500)] <travis_84_> thanks again for the feedback and have a good evening
[19:23:57 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> Thanks for popping by, travis_84_
[19:24:00 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> Great to talk to you as usual
[19:24:26 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> Don't hesitate to appear again here or on the mailing lists if you have any other questions or ideas