diff --git a/recipes/flite/build.sh b/recipes/flite/build.sh
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+++ b/recipes/flite/build.sh
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+set -exou
+
+./configure --with-vox=cmu_us_kal16 --enable-shared --prefix="$(pwd)/build"
+
+make
+
+make install
diff --git a/recipes/flite/install.sh b/recipes/flite/install.sh
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+++ b/recipes/flite/install.sh
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+set -exou
+
+mkdir -p "${PREFIX}/lib"
+
+cp -P build/lib/lib*.so.* "${PREFIX}/lib/"
diff --git a/recipes/flite/install_bin.sh b/recipes/flite/install_bin.sh
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index 0000000000000..c158c4676ac81
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+++ b/recipes/flite/install_bin.sh
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+set -exou
+
+mkdir -p "${PREFIX}/bin"
+
+cp build/bin/flite* ${PREFIX}/bin/
+cp bin/t2p ${PREFIX}/bin/
diff --git a/recipes/flite/install_devel.sh b/recipes/flite/install_devel.sh
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index 0000000000000..97c5c3b809b59
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+++ b/recipes/flite/install_devel.sh
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+set -exou
+
+mkdir -p "${PREFIX}/include/"
+mkdir -p "${PREFIX}/lib"
+
+cp -a build/include/flite "${PREFIX}/include/"
+cp -P build/lib/lib*.so "${PREFIX}/lib/"
diff --git a/recipes/flite/meta.yaml b/recipes/flite/meta.yaml
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+++ b/recipes/flite/meta.yaml
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+{% set name = "flite-tts" %}
+{% set version = "2.3.0" %}
+
+package:
+  name: {{ name|lower }}
+  version: {{ version }}
+
+source:
+  url: https://github.com/festvox/flite/archive/6c9f20dc915b17f5619340069889db0aa007fcdc.tar.gz
+  sha256: 5d23a2c6248568708aff4996015baed49f02ccc2ec4de17de3b9e13b95491ce6
+
+build:
+  skip: True  # [win]
+  number: 0
+
+requirements:
+  build:
+    - {{ compiler('c') }}
+    - make
+
+outputs:
+
+  - name: libflite
+    script: install.sh
+    build:
+      skip: True  # [not linux]
+      run_exports:
+        - {{ pin_subpackage('libflite', max_pin='x.x') }}
+    requirements:
+      build:
+        - {{ compiler('c') }}
+    test:
+      commands:
+        - test -f $PREFIX/lib/libflite.so.2.3  # [linux]
+        - test -f $PREFIX/lib/libflite_usenglish.so.2.3  # [linux]
+
+  - name: flite-dev
+    script: install_devel.sh
+    build:
+      skip: True  # [not linux]
+      run_exports:
+        - {{ pin_subpackage('libflite', max_pin='x.x') }}
+    requirements:
+      build:
+        - {{ compiler('c') }}
+      run:
+        - {{ pin_subpackage("libflite", exact=True) }}
+    test:
+      commands:
+        - test -f $PREFIX/include/flite/flite.h  # [linux]
+        - test -f $PREFIX/lib/libflite.so  # [linux]
+        - test -f $PREFIX/lib/libflite_usenglish.so  # [linux]
+
+  - name: flite
+    script: install_bin.sh  # [not win]
+    requirements:
+      build:
+        - {{ compiler('c') }}
+      host:
+        - {{ pin_subpackage("libflite", exact=True) }}  # [linux]
+      run:
+        - {{ pin_subpackage("libflite", exact=True) }}  # [linux]
+    test:
+      commands:
+        - test -f $PREFIX/bin/flite  # [not win]
+        - test -f $PREFIX/bin/flite_time  # [not win]
+        - test -f $PREFIX/bin/t2p  # [not win]
+        - flite -t test -o /dev/stdout  # [not win]
+        - sh -c "flite -t test -o /dev/stdout | grep -vi error"  # [not win]
+
+about:
+  home: http://cmuflite.org
+  summary: 'A small fast portable speech synthesis system '
+  description: |
+    Flite is an open source small fast run-time text to speech engine. It is
+    the latest addition to the suite of free software synthesis tools
+    including University of Edinburgh's Festival Speech Synthesis System and
+    Carnegie Mellon University's FestVox project, tools, scripts and
+    documentation for building synthetic voices. However, flite itself does
+    not require either of these systems to compile and run.
+  license: BSD-4-Clause
+  license_family: BSD
+  license_file: COPYING
+  doc_url: http://cmuflite.org
+  dev_url: https://github.com/festvox/flite
+
+extra:
+  recipe-maintainers:
+    - peci1