How To Install festival on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install festival on Ubuntu 22.04. festival is General multi-lingual speech synthesis system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install festival on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is festival

festival is:

Festival offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. It includes a Scheme-based command interpreter.

Besides research into speech synthesis, festival is useful as a stand-alone speech synthesis program. It is capable of producing clearly understandable speech from text.

There are three methods to install festival on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install festival Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install festival

Install festival Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install festival

Install festival Using aptitude

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

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install festival

How To Uninstall festival on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove festival

Uninstall festival And Its Dependencies

To uninstall festival and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove festival

Remove festival Configurations and Data

To remove festival configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge festival

Remove festival configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge festival

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install festival package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.