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Tigal announced the VoiceGP family of products under its VeeaR brand of voice and speech recognition products. The product family consists of the VoiceGP module and two development kits with bundled development software. It combines all the hardware and software required for easy and cost effective development and implementation of speech synthesis and multi-language speaker independent and speaker dependent speech recognition capabilities to virtually any application, says the manufacturer. The VoiceGP Module is based on Sensory's RSC-4128 mixed signal processor. Its 42x72mm footprint and two 28-pin connectors with 2.54mm pin spacing make the module breadboard friendly and suitable for prototype boards.

GetRobo has pointed out a new website by Francisco Paz, which focuses on his experience building an open source personal robot called Qbo.  From the few images on the site Qbo looks remarkably well made and quite similar to NEC’s PaPeRo, meaning it might be used to experiment with image processing, speech recognition, speech synthesis, and (assuming it has wheels) obstacle detection and SLAM.  He also mentions in his blog some of the open source software that’s out in the wild such as OpenCV, Festival, and Sphinx, which would allow you to do some of that.