How To Install flite on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install flite on Rocky Linux 8. flite is Small, fast speech synthesis engine (text-to-speech)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install flite on Rocky Linux 8.

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.

We can use yum or dnf to install flite on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flite.

Install flite on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install flite

Install flite on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install flite

How To Uninstall flite on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove flite

flite Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/flite
/usr/bin/flite_time
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/01
/usr/lib/.build-id/01/05fd50a8a31708c4c24aaf27abfa07f93bdbbc
/usr/lib/.build-id/05
/usr/lib/.build-id/05/a55202fbd44221a55776df812bd31a86746bf0
/usr/lib/.build-id/18
/usr/lib/.build-id/18/ac397b6d3b1d4f7b836ee02476f1c09cb24c5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/87
/usr/lib/.build-id/87/ea9e724c35fee36fc6e091573c70e52617fe42
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0/b7029aaa8109343e4ae90804db3e61221c997d
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/d0931dfae23b933ab3d6d915aa1ffd6d16efa8
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce/741a67626ab9dc9e6dce41544f6c47a586ab61
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/c1abe74de691c1b5b93810a440b9b8d2aa8bb6
/usr/lib/libflite.so.1
/usr/lib/libflite.so.1.3
/usr/lib/libflite_cmu_time_awb.so.1
/usr/lib/libflite_cmu_time_awb.so.1.3
/usr/lib/libflite_cmu_us_kal.so.1
/usr/lib/libflite_cmu_us_kal.so.1.3
/usr/lib/libflite_cmu_us_kal16.so.1
/usr/lib/libflite_cmu_us_kal16.so.1.3
/usr/lib/libflite_cmulex.so.1
/usr/lib/libflite_cmulex.so.1.3
/usr/lib/libflite_usenglish.so.1
/usr/lib/libflite_usenglish.so.1.3
/usr/share/doc/flite
/usr/share/doc/flite/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
/usr/share/doc/flite/README
/usr/share/doc/flite/README-ALSA.txt
/usr/share/doc/flite/html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_1.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_2.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_3.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_4.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_5.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_6.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_7.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_8.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_9.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_abt.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_toc.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/index.html
/usr/share/licenses/flite
/usr/share/licenses/flite/COPYING
/usr/bin/flite
/usr/bin/flite_time
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/0994699e1da73dd7680582866cccb2fbe1b0ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/30
/usr/lib/.build-id/30/8750b3803494938bf5d303616faff29041167a
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/2420d3d434fc8b21420fabd0d14f69826c889e
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e/9f4e73ab2623e41c907f7b1102e0977571f775
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae/c07f33a2e18c88711f8cd2e85c28475ca96f3a
/usr/lib/.build-id/af
/usr/lib/.build-id/af/10e2559cdec2845d7336ac9dc7cf387cdd9c6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/a4f7416d38a122225c357b50500a5837783f85
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd/99171eccf2a6b8e58c241392e68a7ab6b4011a
/usr/lib64/libflite.so.1
/usr/lib64/libflite.so.1.3
/usr/lib64/libflite_cmu_time_awb.so.1
/usr/lib64/libflite_cmu_time_awb.so.1.3
/usr/lib64/libflite_cmu_us_kal.so.1
/usr/lib64/libflite_cmu_us_kal.so.1.3
/usr/lib64/libflite_cmu_us_kal16.so.1
/usr/lib64/libflite_cmu_us_kal16.so.1.3
/usr/lib64/libflite_cmulex.so.1
/usr/lib64/libflite_cmulex.so.1.3
/usr/lib64/libflite_usenglish.so.1
/usr/lib64/libflite_usenglish.so.1.3
/usr/share/doc/flite
/usr/share/doc/flite/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
/usr/share/doc/flite/README
/usr/share/doc/flite/README-ALSA.txt
/usr/share/doc/flite/html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_1.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_2.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_3.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_4.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_5.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_6.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_7.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_8.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_9.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_abt.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/flite_toc.html
/usr/share/doc/flite/html/index.html
/usr/share/licenses/flite
/usr/share/licenses/flite/COPYING

References

flite website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install flite on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.