Command-line tool

flite

brew/flite

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Small fast and portable speech synthesis system

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At a glance

Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install flite

Linux

brew install flite

List all available voices

flite -lv

Convert a text string to speech

flite -t "string"

Convert the contents of a file to speech

flite -f path/to/file.txt

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