Generate audio files using Festival

Question

Is it possible to generate audio files in Festival by piping the output to some other program? I'm trying to find out how to convert an xml file to a audio file, using Festival's "singing synthesis" option.

Answer 1

For a file called "america1.xml", you would use this command: text2wave -mode singing america1.xml -o america1.wav to generate a wav file.

I found this information here: http://festvox.org/docs/manual-1.4.3/festival_29.html