How To Install flite on CentOS 8

flite is Small, fast speech synthesis engine (text-to-speech) Small, fast speech synthesis engine (text-to-speech)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install flite on CentOS 8.

What is `flite`

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. flite 1.3 31.el8 x86_64 6.1 M flite-1.3-31.el8.src.rpm powertools Small, fast speech synthesis engine (text-to-speech) http MIT 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 or dnf to install flite on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flite.

Install flite on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install flite using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install flite

Install flite on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install flite using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install flite

How To Uninstall flite on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the flite package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove flite

flite Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/flite
/usr/bin/flite_time
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/05
/usr/lib/.build-id/05/b9d616708a23af01da6f0d959a27f2a79efdaf
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/0723e3bdcd180805c3a6ab5a2fefc6f77162c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e/4d7f5561c7264c63eaeb43b270dad02d0ed80a
/usr/lib/.build-id/53
/usr/lib/.build-id/53/0c034f524b2b49d1f89d84f4a5e9f4a861a021
/usr/lib/.build-id/68
/usr/lib/.build-id/68/6fd8aaf6bfc6a1622260c38b0237474b7055ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd/98a2ec3ff0627627cd59875bfba8c0d6856b25
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed/38063260935e5aac890c41067003f1addd9c4c
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd/6b73275ad49546c88c244f6c82630511e5f6c3
/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
/usr/share/doc/flite/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
/usr/share/doc/flite/README
/usr/share/doc/flite/README-ALSA.txt
/usr/share/doc/flite/html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_1.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_2.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_3.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_4.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_5.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_6.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_7.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_8.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_9.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_abt.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_toc.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/index.html
/usr/share/licenses/flite
/usr/share/licenses/flite/COPYING
/usr/bin/flite
/usr/bin/flite_time
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b/aa8031d94ef0493acb406a9a7443f2c65ae70f
/usr/lib/.build-id/25
/usr/lib/.build-id/25/0ab4bc5b1673da1116d079c999f6c2fbec9f31
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f/17dd77cda7e0840e6d407128c4bdf667e7c4c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/97
/usr/lib/.build-id/97/c1dbbce3a376f785d2e8caf0587fd4b0d693f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac/85529277042e6e191964da403ed168dc86547b
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6/ac68ee38a821e1808899f0864407d2b1c578d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd/ebd40221d683f408fd8d8731240dd7e9f40e54
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5/0cc9d0bf6db0e41b925dbcd378aeae67992d44
/usr/lib64/libflite.so.1
/usr/lib64/libflite.so.1.3
/usr/lib64/libflite_cmu_time_awb.so.1
/usr/lib64/libflite_cmu_time_awb.so.1.3
/usr/lib64/libflite_cmu_us_kal.so.1
/usr/lib64/libflite_cmu_us_kal.so.1.3
/usr/lib64/libflite_cmu_us_kal16.so.1
/usr/lib64/libflite_cmu_us_kal16.so.1.3
/usr/lib64/libflite_cmulex.so.1
/usr/lib64/libflite_cmulex.so.1.3
/usr/lib64/libflite_usenglish.so.1
/usr/lib64/libflite_usenglish.so.1.3
/usr/share/doc/flite
/usr/share/doc/flite/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
/usr/share/doc/flite/README
/usr/share/doc/flite/README-ALSA.txt
/usr/share/doc/flite/html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_1.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_2.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_3.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_4.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_5.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_6.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_7.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_8.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_9.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_abt.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_toc.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/index.html
/usr/share/licenses/flite
/usr/share/licenses/flite/COPYING

References

[flite website](http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/ http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/)

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install flite on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.