From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Received: from cpe-144-136-157-34.qld.bigpond.net.au
	([144.136.157.34] helo=data.home ident=mail)
	by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian))
	id 1AMcO8-0001Kg-00
	for <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:09:36 -0500
Received: from geoff (helo=localhost)
	by data.home with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian))
	id 1AMcO2-0001nJ-00
	for <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:09:30 +1000
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:09:30 +1000 (EST)
From: Geoff Shang <gshang@uq.net.au>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20031119224015.GA557@chris>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311201007550.1765-100000@data.home>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Subject: Re: making mp3 from text file
X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3
Precedence: list
Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
	<speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
	<speakup.braille.uwo.ca>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup>,
	<mailto:speakup-request@braille.uwo.ca?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://braille.uwo.ca/pipermail/speakup>
List-Post: <mailto:speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
List-Help: <mailto:speakup-request@braille.uwo.ca?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup>,
	<mailto:speakup-request@braille.uwo.ca?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 00:09:36 -0000

Hi:

I know you can get festival to dump to a wav file, which you could then
encode to whatever format you like.  Though of course this will require a
bit of disk space to do.  Don't know if festival can send its wav to
standard out, in which case you could go direct to MP3.

Geoff.