How To Install festival on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install festival in Fedora 36. festival is Speech synthesis and text-to-speech system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install festival on Fedora 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install festival.

Install festival on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install festival

Install festival on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 36

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

sudo dnf remove festival

festival Package Contents on Fedora 36

/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/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/a77b5e4da8f5c7c04acaf35e9421c8e6d4081f
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/01b32f037d0d61185e128b2375257140b9ff9e
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/bfbaf39b58d737f9de5a528417f99f4e2dfe4c
/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

festival website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install festival on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).