flite: flite (a lightweight speech synthesis engine) flite: flite: Flite is a small and fast run-time synthesis engine designed for flite: embedded systems and servers. Flite was developed by Alan W Black flite: and Kevin Lenzo at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh. flite: Flite is designed as an alternative text to speech synthesis engine to flite: Festival for voices built using the FestVox suite of voice building flite: tools. flite: flite: flite: