How To Install festvox-kal-diphone on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install festvox-kal-diphone on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. 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 CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install festvox-kal-diphone using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install festvox-kal-diphone
Install festvox-kal-diphone 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 festvox-kal-diphone using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install festvox-kal-diphone
How To Uninstall festvox-kal-diphone on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the festvox-kal-diphone package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove festvox-kal-diphone
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install festvox-kal-diphone on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.