How To Install festvox-rab-diphone on Fedora 36

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

Introduction

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

What is `festvox-rab-diphone`

British English male speaker (“RAB”) for Festival. This voice provides a British English male voice using a residual excited LPC diphone synthesis method. It uses the CMU Lexicon for 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-rab-diphone on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install festvox-rab-diphone.

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

sudo dnf -y install festvox-rab-diphone

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

sudo yum -y install festvox-rab-diphone

How To Uninstall festvox-rab-diphone on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove festvox-rab-diphone

festvox-rab-diphone Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/festival/voices
/usr/share/festival/voices/english
/usr/share/festival/voices/english/rab_diphone
/usr/share/festival/voices/english/rab_diphone/festvox
/usr/share/festival/voices/english/rab_diphone/festvox/rab_diphone.scm
/usr/share/festival/voices/english/rab_diphone/group
/usr/share/festival/voices/english/rab_diphone/group/rablpc16k.group
/usr/share/licenses/festvox-rab-diphone
/usr/share/licenses/festvox-rab-diphone/COPYING.rab_diphone

References

festvox-rab-diphone website

Summary

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