eflite command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

eflite: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: eflite: command not found

Solutions to eflite: command not found

How To Fix eflite: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu eflite is provided by eflite package.

eflite is:

EFlite is a speech server for Emacspeak and other screen readers that allows them to interface with Festival Lite, a free text-to-speech engine developed at the CMU Speech Center as an off-shoot of Festival.

Due to limitations inherited from its backend, EFlite does only provide support for the English language at the moment.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install eflite

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install eflite.

sudo apt -y install eflite

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install eflite

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix eflite command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.