How To Install festvox-jmk-arctic-hts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install festvox-jmk-arctic-hts in Fedora 36. festvox-jmk-arctic-hts is Canadian-accent US English male speaker “JMK” for Festival

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install festvox-jmk-arctic-hts on Fedora 36.

What is festvox-jmk-arctic-hts

US English male speaker (“JMK”) voice for Festival. JMK is a native Canadian English speaker, but the voice uses the US English front end. This is a HMM-based Speech Synthesis System (HTS) voice from the Nagoya Institute of Technology, trained using the CMU ARCTIC database. This voice is based on 1138 utterances spoken by a US English male speaker. The speaker is experienced in building synthetic voices. This was recorded at 16bit 32KHz, in a sound proof room, in stereo, one channel was the waveform, the other EGG. The database was automatically labelled using CMU Sphinx using the FestVox labelling scripts. No hand correction has been made.

We can use yum or dnf to install festvox-jmk-arctic-hts on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install festvox-jmk-arctic-hts.

Install festvox-jmk-arctic-hts 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 festvox-jmk-arctic-hts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install festvox-jmk-arctic-hts

Install festvox-jmk-arctic-hts 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 festvox-jmk-arctic-hts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install festvox-jmk-arctic-hts

How To Uninstall festvox-jmk-arctic-hts on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the festvox-jmk-arctic-hts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove festvox-jmk-arctic-hts

festvox-jmk-arctic-hts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/festival/voices
/usr/share/festival/voices/us
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/dur_rf_models
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/dur_rf_models/dur_03
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/dur_rf_models/dur_03/cmu_us_jmk_durdata_cg.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/dur_rf_models/dur_10
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/dur_rf_models/dur_10/cmu_us_jmk_durdata_cg.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/dur_rf_models/dur_17
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/dur_rf_models/dur_17/cmu_us_jmk_durdata_cg.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/dur_rf_models/mlist
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festival
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festival/trees
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festival/trees/cmu_us_jmk_f0.tree
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festival/trees/cmu_us_jmk_mcep.params
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festival/trees/cmu_us_jmk_mcep.tree
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox/build_clunits.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox/build_prosody.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox/clustergen.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox/clustergen.scm.xxx
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox/clustergen_build.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox/cmu_us_jmk_cg.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox/cmu_us_jmk_clunits.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox/cmu_us_jmk_dur.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox/cmu_us_jmk_duration.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox/cmu_us_jmk_durdata.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox/cmu_us_jmk_durdata_cg.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox/cmu_us_jmk_f0model.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox/cmu_us_jmk_intonation.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox/cmu_us_jmk_lexicon.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox/cmu_us_jmk_other.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox/cmu_us_jmk_phoneset.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox/cmu_us_jmk_phrasing.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox/cmu_us_jmk_statenames.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox/cmu_us_jmk_tagger.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox/cmu_us_jmk_tokenizer.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox/lpf.track
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox/mef.track
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/festvox/tree_f0.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/rf_models
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/rf_models/mlist
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/rf_models/mlistf0
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/rf_models/trees_03
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/rf_models/trees_03/cmu_us_jmk_f0.tree
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/rf_models/trees_04
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/rf_models/trees_04/cmu_us_jmk_f0.tree
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/rf_models/trees_10
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/rf_models/trees_10/cmu_us_jmk_f0.tree
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/rf_models/trees_10/cmu_us_jmk_mcep.params
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/rf_models/trees_10/cmu_us_jmk_mcep.tree
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/rf_models/trees_11
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/rf_models/trees_11/cmu_us_jmk_f0.tree
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/rf_models/trees_11/cmu_us_jmk_mcep.params
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/rf_models/trees_11/cmu_us_jmk_mcep.tree
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/rf_models/trees_17
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/rf_models/trees_17/cmu_us_jmk_f0.tree
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/rf_models/trees_20
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/rf_models/trees_20/cmu_us_jmk_f0.tree
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/rf_models/trees_20/cmu_us_jmk_mcep.params
/usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_jmk_cg/rf_models/trees_20/cmu_us_jmk_mcep.tree

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install festvox-jmk-arctic-hts on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).