How To Install flite on Fedora 34

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 Fedora 34.

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 37.fc34 x86_64 6.4 M flite-1.3-37.fc34.src.rpm fedora 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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flite.

Install flite 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 flite using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install flite

Install flite 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 flite using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install flite

How To Uninstall flite on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove flite

flite Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/flite
/usr/bin/flite_time
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/01
/usr/lib/.build-id/01/f4d4343be90dad470fb9ce686d4f31de941d8f
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/875558c5c4c5e47da824a16f0ef8c4f198c1a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/ddbd56b9738a16c7d9c560adc1a24ea66a6d52
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e/abbf1e56a7bfe1b7b4b8536fd4701a45a27d12
/usr/lib/.build-id/95
/usr/lib/.build-id/95/1e44cb68f443b0b79e4da44b517eba8ae42c96
/usr/lib/.build-id/96
/usr/lib/.build-id/96/b3e933b7a3f130fbea4743d341f35647b48374
/usr/lib/.build-id/97
/usr/lib/.build-id/97/70c44628c0e269f61a340e53274a3f0678ef3a
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba/537dba5ec36e1bef483cbb875d89c2f05bbe1a
/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/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/582a6f72bbd349bca94c4e935a3768c2d03f2f
/usr/lib/.build-id/57
/usr/lib/.build-id/57/012655750e3b3144bc72b12b3dbf9961708179
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/d2413152b0113e4d3ae680f55ffafe984be69b
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/4738e4a8586918e96e3137363b8871841a7bb4
/usr/lib/.build-id/89
/usr/lib/.build-id/89/c2340f2a70dd9ec05a53baf9c32ca95619ca15
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/e7273fa242ee6003af2d47ce8cad33a2dfb5e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8/23017a94b257cd6f32acdad0535938cbc43e93
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/bbc089c3cb027ead04fa183a81221c5e6723ee
/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.