Hi chuck and all. Flite's speech isn't too good but can you tell me how you did the wave files with flite. I did write to fonix about this but haven't heard back. Festival's text2wave script fills up my /tmp before finishing on longer files, plus it seems to want every scrap of my memory and swap at some points. will let you know if/when i hear form fonix on this issue. thanks. -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."