How To Install flite.i686 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flite.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is flite.i686
Flite (festival-lite) is a small, fast run-time speech synthesis engine developed at CMU and primarily designed for small embedded machines and/or large servers. Flite is designed as an alternative synthesis engine to Festival for voices built using the FestVox suite of voice building tools.
We can use yum to install flite.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flite.i686.
Install flite.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install flite.i686 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install flite.i686
How To Uninstall flite.i686 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the flite.i686 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove flite.i686
flite.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/bin/flite
/usr/bin/flite_time
/usr/lib/libflite.so.1
/usr/lib/libflite.so.1.3
/usr/lib/libflite_cmu_time_awb.so.1
/usr/lib/libflite_cmu_time_awb.so.1.3
/usr/lib/libflite_cmu_us_kal.so.1
/usr/lib/libflite_cmu_us_kal.so.1.3
/usr/lib/libflite_cmu_us_kal16.so.1
/usr/lib/libflite_cmu_us_kal16.so.1.3
/usr/lib/libflite_cmulex.so.1
/usr/lib/libflite_cmulex.so.1.3
/usr/lib/libflite_usenglish.so.1
/usr/lib/libflite_usenglish.so.1.3
/usr/share/doc/flite-1.3
/usr/share/doc/flite-1.3/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
/usr/share/doc/flite-1.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/flite-1.3/README
/usr/share/doc/flite-1.3/README-ALSA.txt
/usr/share/doc/flite-1.3/html
/usr/share/doc/flite-1.3/html/flite.html
/usr/share/doc/flite-1.3/html/flite_1.html
/usr/share/doc/flite-1.3/html/flite_10.html
/usr/share/doc/flite-1.3/html/flite_2.html
/usr/share/doc/flite-1.3/html/flite_3.html
/usr/share/doc/flite-1.3/html/flite_4.html
/usr/share/doc/flite-1.3/html/flite_5.html
/usr/share/doc/flite-1.3/html/flite_6.html
/usr/share/doc/flite-1.3/html/flite_7.html
/usr/share/doc/flite-1.3/html/flite_8.html
/usr/share/doc/flite-1.3/html/flite_9.html
/usr/share/doc/flite-1.3/html/flite_abt.html
/usr/share/doc/flite-1.3/html/flite_toc.html
/usr/share/doc/flite-1.3/html/index.html
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flite.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.