festival_client command not found

Introduction

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

festival_client: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: festival_client: command not found

Solutions to festival_client: command not found

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

In Ubuntu festival_client is provided by festival package.

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.

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

sudo apt-get -y install festival

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

You can also use apt command to install festival.

sudo apt -y install festival

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

sudo aptitude install festival

Summary

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