Wolfgang Woehl writes: > cat textfile | txt2pho | mbrola voicefile - - | encoder > ... > Are you a noisecore person? ... I'm not familiar with noisecore. Is that another encoder? I tried doing: cat an.txt | festival --tts | mbrola test.mp3 - - | lame - but it just did a little encoding that sent the results to the screen. Am I missing something, or misinterpreting something? Thanks, Terrence