How To Install festvox-awb-arctic-hts on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install festvox-awb-arctic-hts on CentOS 7.
What is festvox-awb-arctic-hts
US English male speaker (“AWB”) for Festival. AWB is a native Scottish 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 Scottish English male speaker. The speaker is very experienced in building synthetic voices and matched prompted US English, though his vowels are very different from US English vowels. Scottish English speakers will probably find synthesizers based on this voice strange. Unlike the other CMU_ARCTIC databases this was recorded in 16 bit 16KHz mono without EGG, on a Dell Laptop in a quiet office. 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-awb-arctic-hts on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install festvox-awb-arctic-hts.
Install festvox-awb-arctic-hts on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install festvox-awb-arctic-hts using yum by running the following command:
Install festvox-awb-arctic-hts 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.
After updating yum database, We can install festvox-awb-arctic-hts using dnf by running the following command:
How To Uninstall festvox-awb-arctic-hts on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the festvox-awb-arctic-hts package we can use the following command:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install festvox-awb-arctic-hts on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.