Terrence <terrencevak-lau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Wolfgang Woehl writes: > > cat textfile | txt2pho | mbrola voicefile - - | encoder > I tried doing: > cat an.txt | festival --tts | mbrola test.mp3 - - | lame - ^^^^^^^^ Syntax is "mbrola <path to voicefile> <phoneme file> <output>" So you would say something like ... | mbrola en1 - - | ... > but it just did a little encoding that sent the results to the > screen. Am I missing something, or misinterpreting something? I don't know. Me not using lame cause mp3 so lame. But you will probably have to tell it that the input is raw pcm, maybe the samplerate that comes out of mbrola and a name for the file lame is supposed to lame, err, create. Manpage has details, I'm so sure :) Wolfgang