Use text2wav to use festival to convert text to speech in a wave file: echo "test 1 2 3" >test.txt text2wave -f 8000 -o test.wav test.txt play test.wav The -f 8000 selects 8000 samples per second (try -f 16000). Also, you can use -scale N to change the volume. See: http://lorance.freeshell.org/asterisk/asterisk-can-talk.txt Hope this helps, -- Wade Hampton -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines