How to Install festival software package in Debian 9 (Stretch)

How to Install festival software package in Debian 9 (Stretch)

festival software package provides General multi-lingual speech synthesis system, you can install in your Debian 9 (Stretch) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install festival 

festival is installed in your system.

Make ensure the festival package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep festival *

You will get with festival package name, version, architecture and description in a table

festival package basic information:

Distro Debian 9 stretch
Section Sound
Package festival
Version 1:2.4~release-3
Description General multi-lingual speech synthesis system
Sub Section Sound


See Also, How to uninstall or remove festival software package from Debian 9 (Stretch)?