How To Install festival on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install festival on Fedora 34.
What is festival
Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system developed at CSTR. It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well as an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. It is written in C++ with a Scheme-based command interpreter for general control.
We can use yum or dnf to install festival on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install festival.
Install festival on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install festival using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install festival
Install festival on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install festival using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install festival
How To Uninstall festival on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the festival package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove festival
festival Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/default_voices
/usr/bin/festival
/usr/bin/festival_client
/usr/bin/festival_server
/usr/bin/festival_server_control
/usr/bin/saytime
/usr/bin/text2wave
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/77
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/3a5750ce1b32b08c4e4f33c93f6ef55f5bd5f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/af
/usr/lib/.build-id/af/5b8247454d97452b2c584ac3cd1aebce32664f
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4/1736ee1506f2051d22da863df06630206a529c
/usr/lib/systemd/system/festival.service
/usr/libexec/festival
/usr/libexec/festival/audsp
/usr/share/doc/festival
/usr/share/doc/festival/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
/usr/share/doc/festival/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/festival/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/festival
/usr/share/licenses/festival/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/festival/COPYING.cmudict
/usr/share/licenses/festival/COPYING.poslex
/usr/share/man/man1/festival.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/festival_client.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install festival on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
