---
title: Install §Voice on Red Hat Enterprise Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of §Voice for on Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Fast,
  private, local text-to-speech powered by Kokoro
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/truevoice/rhel
---

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# Install §Voice on **Red Hat Enterprise Linux**

# §Voice (truevoice)

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[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/truevoice/rhel#install)

#### Fast, private, local text-to-speech powered by Kokoro

Voice turns text, files, and standard input into natural Kokoro speech
entirely on your CPU. The model runs locally: text is not uploaded and no
account or network connection is required after installation.

Select from 54 voices across American and British English, Spanish, French,
Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Mandarin Chinese. Voice
can play speech immediately or write a 24 kHz WAV file for later use.

Command-line examples:

```
 truevoice speak "Hello from Voice"
 truevoice voices
 truevoice speak --output speech.wav "Save this as a WAV file"
```

For the full Ubuntu GNOME Quick Settings experience, run this once after
installing the snap:

```
 git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/t4ce/Voice.git
 cd Voice
 ./tools/install_ubuntu_integration.sh
```

This host-side installer adds the Voice tile, language and voice selection,
Speak Clipboard, Speak Selection, and keyboard shortcuts for the current
user. The speech model remains local and only loads when Voice is switched on.

### Package name

* truevoice

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### License

* GPL-3.0-or-later

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### Last updated

* 8 August 2026 - latest/stable
* 8 August 2026 - latest/edge

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### Donations

* [www.trueos.eu](https://www.trueos.eu "https://www.trueos.eu")

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## Enable snaps on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and install §Voice

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

Snap is available for [Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8](https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-linux-8) and RHEL 7, from the 7.6 release onward.

The packages for RHEL 7, RHEL 8, and RHEL 9 are in each distribution’s respective [Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) (EPEL) repository. The instructions for adding this repository diverge slightly between RHEL 7, RHEL 8 and RHEL 9, which is why they’re listed separately below.

The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 9** with the following command:

```
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
```

The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 8** with the following command:

```
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
```

The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 7** with the following command:

```
sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
```

Adding the *optional* and *extras* repositories is also recommended:

```
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable "rhel-*-optional-rpms" --enable "rhel-*-extras-rpms"
sudo yum update
```

Snap can now be installed as follows:

```
sudo yum install snapd
```

Once installed, the *systemd* unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:

```
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
```

To enable *classic* snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between `/var/lib/snapd/snap` and `/snap`:

```
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
```

Either log out and back in again or restart your system to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.

### Install §Voice

To install §Voice, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install truevoice
```

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