How To Install flite on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install flite on Kali Linux.

What is flite

flite is:

Flite is a small fast run-time speech synthesis engine. It is the latest addition to the suite of free software synthesis tools including University of Edinburgh’s Festival Speech Synthesis System and Carnegie Mellon University’s FestVox project, tools, scripts and documentation for building synthetic voices. However, flite itself does not require either of these systems to run.

It currently only supports the English and Indic languages.

This package contains the executables and documentation.

There are three methods to install flite on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install flite Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install flite using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install flite

Install flite Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install flite using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install flite

Install flite Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install flite using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install flite

How To Uninstall flite on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the flite package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove flite

Uninstall flite And Its Dependencies

To uninstall flite and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove flite

Remove flite Configurations and Data

To remove flite configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge flite

Remove flite configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove flite configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge flite

Dependencies

flite have the following dependencies:

• libflite1
• libc6

References

• flite website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install flite package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.