Dear Friends, While testing festival 1.4.2 which came by default with FC2 I noticed following. When I give the following command festival --TTS filename it is reading nicely with clarity. but when I give like this: festival -TTS filename.c or festival -TTS filename.cpp then festival is not reading all punctuations and special symbols like { } : ; etc. Now my question is how should I make festival to read punctuations and special symbols? Thanks. Satyanarayana Murty Tanikella Software Engineer Aztec Technologies and services limited. Phone number : 080 55231730 Mob:91 0 98867 94 662.