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flite


Information about the package, flite, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The flite package is designed for, Small, fast speech synthesis engine (text-to-speech).


Package Name:

flite

Summary:

Small, fast speech synthesis engine (text-to-speech)

Description:

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.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

1.3

Release:

24.el6

Size:

6.1 M

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

MIT



Handy Yum Commands for flite


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


Command

Description of Command

yum install flite

This command will install flite on the server.

yum remove flite

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

yum -y remove flite

This command will un-install flite 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 flite when using the -y flag.

yum update flite

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

yum -y update flite

This command will update flite 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 flite when using the -y flag.

yum info flite

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

yum deplist flite

This command will show you the dependencies for flite. 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 flite

This command will check if there is an update waiting on flite. 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.