How To Install festvox-slt-arctic-hts on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install festvox-slt-arctic-hts on CentOS 7.
What is festvox-slt-arctic-hts
US English female speaker (“SLT”) voice for Festival. 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 1132 utterances spoken by a US English female speaker. The speaker is experienced in building synthetic voices. This was recorded at 16bit 32KHz, in a sound proof room, in stereo, one channel was the waveform, the other EGG. 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-slt-arctic-hts on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install festvox-slt-arctic-hts.
Install festvox-slt-arctic-hts 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-slt-arctic-hts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install festvox-slt-arctic-hts
Install festvox-slt-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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install festvox-slt-arctic-hts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install festvox-slt-arctic-hts
How To Uninstall festvox-slt-arctic-hts on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the festvox-slt-arctic-hts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove festvox-slt-arctic-hts
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install festvox-slt-arctic-hts on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
