Festival Speech Synthesis to audio file (ogg, mp3 , wav ,)

[stan]

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:17:39 +0530
Jatin K <ssh.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/22/2009 11:39 AM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> > Jatin K wrote:
> >    
> >> Dear all
> >> is there any way/method to get the output file in
> > audio format like
> >> (ogg, mp3, wav ) from Festival speech synthesis under
> > fedora 11 ??
> >    
> > I looked in my notes of things that I might need to
> > know. I have never tested this, but perhaps man will
> > tell you more, or maybe you could pipe
> Pipe .... can you suggest me a command to pipe
> I'm using following command
> festival --tts mytextfile.txt  | what to pipe ??????

I don't know festival and I haven't done this but sox should do the
conversion very well.  It has extensive man pages.  You will have to
have a version compiled with your desired output format (this especially
refers to non-free encodings).

http://sox.sourceforge.net