Ok, got text2wave to work. I used: text2wave -o test.wav test.txt The reason I had trouble when I first tried to do this is that when I last installed I used the suggestions in a partitioning howto I found online and /tmp is a separate partition and not maybe big enough for some things, though i haven't had any problems prior to this. Text2wave seems to first write the file in small pieces (maybe a sentence or so) to little individual files in /tmp beginning with est, so your /tmp file fills and fills until at some point the transfer to the actual wave file begins; I'm not sure if that doesn't happen at all until the whole file has been translated or not. then /tmp slowly has its data deleted as the transfer takes place. I don't know if i was actually using too large a text file for this process or if I hadn't erased some of the files from /tmp when I made a false start and ended up cancelling the program, but the first time i did this I never got my wave file because text2wave didn't have room to save everything in its est files to /tmp. So I tried it with a very short text file so that wouldn't be a problem and it worked just fine. am now trying it again with a larger file. It also seems to work with cat test.txt | text2wave -o test.wav but I don't think that makes any difference in how the /tmp files get done. Festival isn't doing too badly with this, except i noticed it has soem things it considers abbreviations; keeps reading the name Jan as January. -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
