Festival includes a utility called "text2wave" for that purpose. You need to redirect its output to a .wav file of your choosing. The format is: text2wave textfile.txt > wavefile.wav HTH Chuck On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Janina Sajka wrote: > If I run festival -tts [some_file.txt] > > I get to listen to festival speak thaat text file. But, I want to send > that audio to a file, perhaps a .wav. How would I go about that? I tried > piping it to arecord, but got nowhere and I don't quite understand why. > > > -- The Moon is Waning Crescent (3% of Full) So visit me sometime at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh