How To Install festvox-ked-diphone on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install festvox-ked-diphone on CentOS 7. festvox-ked-diphone is American English male speaker Kurt for Festival

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install festvox-ked-diphone on CentOS 7.

What is festvox-ked-diphone

American English male speaker (“Kurt”) for Festival. This voice provides an American 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-ked-diphone on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install festvox-ked-diphone.

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

sudo yum -y install festvox-ked-diphone

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

sudo dnf -y install festvox-ked-diphone

How To Uninstall festvox-ked-diphone on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove festvox-ked-diphone

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install festvox-ked-diphone on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.