I hgave --wave as an example - I am 100% sure that there is a command line switch but as I said I don't have Festival installed to try it out! Just try festival --help and see what it says. Saqib -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Cheryl Homiak Sent: 25 April 2004 19:52 To: speakup Subject: Re: converting text files to sound files Well, festival doesn't have a --wave option but it does have a utility called text2wave. It supposedly runs from the command line, but so far i haven't actually gotten it to produce a wave file. Will let you know if/when i succeed. Thanks. -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup