How To Install flite on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flite on CentOS 7.
What is flite
Flite (festival-lite) is a small, fast run-time speech synthesis engine developed at CMU and primarily designed for small embedded machines and/or large servers. Flite is designed as an alternative synthesis engine to Festival for voices built using the FestVox suite of voice building tools. Flite (festival-lite) is a small, fast run-time speech synthesis engine developed at CMU and primarily designed for small embedded machines and/or large servers. Flite is designed as an alternative synthesis engine to Festival for voices built using the FestVox suite of voice building tools.
We can use yum or dnf to install flite on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flite.
Install flite on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install flite using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install flite
Install flite 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 flite using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install flite
How To Uninstall flite on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the flite package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove flite
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flite on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
