How to Install and Uninstall festival Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 21,2024

1. Install "festival" package

Please follow the steps below to install festival on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "festival" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall festival on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the festival package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: festival
Priority: optional
Section: universe/sound
Installed-Size: 2613
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:2.4~release-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libestools2.4, libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.4.0), sgml-base (>= 1.26+nmu2), adduser (>= 3.105), alsa-utils, lsb-base (>= 3.0-10)
Recommends: festvox-kallpc16k | festival-voice
Suggests: pidgin-festival, festival-freebsoft-utils
Breaks: festlex-cmu (<< 1.4.0-3), festlex-oald (<< 1.4.0-2), festlex-poslex (<< 1.4.0-3), festvox-don (<< 1.4.0-3), festvox-ellpc11k (<< 1.4.0-1), festvox-kdlpc16k (<< 1.4.0-4), festvox-kdlpc8k (<< 1.4.0-5), festvox-rablpc16k (<< 1.4.0-2), festvox-rablpc8k (<< 1.4.0-2)
Filename: pool/universe/f/festival/festival_2.4~release-2_amd64.deb
Size: 837400
MD5sum: 99e90c27b8de5de6baa2d7074593982d
SHA1: a622de87dadb2a17a1834d8ac419b87f26ae25b8
SHA256: ad51397541800431747e80b502fe0d099f2bedf9f3dd9293e7e5183db0dd92ca
Description-en: General multi-lingual speech synthesis system
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.
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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.
Description-md5: 1426e113a68d1ed6c7f4e04b2a40e020
Homepage: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 9m