flite_cmu_us_kal command not found

Introduction

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

flite_cmu_us_kal: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: flite_cmu_us_kal: command not found

Solutions to flite_cmu_us_kal: command not found

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

In Ubuntu flite_cmu_us_kal is provided by flite package.

flite is:

Flite is a small fast run-time speech synthesis engine. It is the latest addition to the suite of free software synthesis tools including University of Edinburgh’s Festival Speech Synthesis System and Carnegie Mellon University’s FestVox project, tools, scripts and documentation for building synthetic voices. However, flite itself does not require either of these systems to run.

It currently only supports the English and Indic languages.

This package contains the executables and documentation.

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

sudo apt-get -y install flite

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

You can also use apt command to install flite.

sudo apt -y install flite

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

sudo aptitude install flite

Summary

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