How To Install festival-freebsoft-utils on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install festival-freebsoft-utils on CentOS 7.
What is festival-freebsoft-utils
A collection of utilities that enhance Festival with some useful features. They provide all that is needed for interaction with Speech Dispatcher. Key festival-freebsoft-utils features are - Generalized concept of input events. festival-freebsoft-utils allows not only plain text synthesis, but also combining it with sounds. Additionally, mechanism of logical events mapped to other events is provided. - Substitution of events for given words. - High-level voice selection mechanism and setting of basic prosodic parameters. - Spelling mode. - Capital letter signalization. - Punctuation modes, for explicit reading or not reading punctuation characters. - Incremental synthesis of texts and events. - Speech Dispatcher support. - Rudimentary SSML support. - Enhance the Festival extension language with functions commonly used in Lisp. - Support for wrapping already defined Festival functions by your own code. - Everything is written in the extension language, no patching of the Festival C++ sources is needed.
We can use yum or dnf to install festival-freebsoft-utils on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install festival-freebsoft-utils.
Install festival-freebsoft-utils on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install festival-freebsoft-utils using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install festival-freebsoft-utils
Install festival-freebsoft-utils on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install festival-freebsoft-utils using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install festival-freebsoft-utils
How To Uninstall festival-freebsoft-utils on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the festival-freebsoft-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove festival-freebsoft-utils
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install festival-freebsoft-utils on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
