flite (speech synthesis engine) Flite is a small, fast run-time synthesis engine, designed for embedded systems and servers. Flite was developed by Alan W Black and Kevin Lenzo at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh. Starting with version 2.0.0, flite is able to load extra voice files at runtime, in its own .flitevox format. If you want to include loadable voices in the package, download the ones you want from http://festvox.org/flite/packed/flite-2.0/voices/ and place them in the same directory as the SlackBuild. They will be installed in /usr/share/flite/, and can be used with the flite's -voice option. To skip building the HTML and GNU Info API documentation, set DOCS=no in the environment. The man page will still be included. This option is mainly provided in case a future version of texi2html has issues with the texi2html options used by flite's doc/Makefile.