How To Install festvox-kal-diphone on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install festvox-kal-diphone in Fedora 36. festvox-kal-diphone is American English male speaker “Kevin” for Festival

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install festvox-kal-diphone on Fedora 36.

What is festvox-kal-diphone

American English male speaker (“Kevin”) for Festival. This voice provides an American English male voice using a residual excited LPC diphone synthesis method. It uses the CMU Lexicon pronunciations. Prosodic phrasing is provided by a statistically trained model using part of speech and local distribution of breaks. Intonation is provided by a CART tree predicting ToBI accents and an F0 contour generated from a model trained from natural speech. The duration model is also trained from data using a CART tree.

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

Install festvox-kal-diphone 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-kal-diphone using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install festvox-kal-diphone

Install festvox-kal-diphone 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-kal-diphone using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install festvox-kal-diphone

How To Uninstall festvox-kal-diphone on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the festvox-kal-diphone package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove festvox-kal-diphone

festvox-kal-diphone Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/festival/voices
/usr/share/festival/voices/english
/usr/share/festival/voices/english/kal_diphone
/usr/share/festival/voices/english/kal_diphone/festvox
/usr/share/festival/voices/english/kal_diphone/festvox/kal_diphone.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/english/kal_diphone/festvox/kaldurtreeZ.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/english/kal_diphone/group
/usr/share/festival/voices/english/kal_diphone/group/kallpc16k.group
/usr/share/licenses/festvox-kal-diphone
/usr/share/licenses/festvox-kal-diphone/COPYING.kal_diphone

References

Summary

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