Hi Actually, the command line you want with this is: say -fi INPUt_FILE -fo OUTPUT_FILE This'll read a text file in and put out a wave file, which can then be converted to ogg, mp3, or whatever you want to do with it. On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > Hi Cheryl, this is indeed possible. > > 1. The most preferable option IMHO would be to use DECTalk software, and > use the provided "say" program to record text files. I can't remember the > command line options but say --help should do it. Basically if you type cat > filename | say it'll talk the file, and if you type cat filename | say > --wave wavefile or something similar it'll record it to a wave file.