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festival


Information about the package, festival, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The festival package is designed for, Speech synthesis and text-to-speech system.


Package Name:

festival

Summary:

Speech synthesis and text-to-speech system

Description:

Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system developed at CSTR. It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well as an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. It is written in C++ with a Scheme-based command interpreter for general control.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

1.96

Release:

18.el6

Size:

1.4 M

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

MIT and GPL+ and TCL



Handy Yum Commands for festival


Control the festival package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install festival

This command will install festival on the server.

yum remove festival

This command will un-install festival on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove festival, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove festival

This command will un-install festival on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove festival when using the -y flag.

yum update festival

This command will update festival to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove festival, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update festival

This command will update festival to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove festival when using the -y flag.

yum info festival

This command will show you core information about the festival package.

yum deplist festival

This command will show you the dependencies for festival. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update festival

This command will check if there is an update waiting on festival. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.