How To Install speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng on CentOS 8

speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng is Speech Dispatcher espeak-ng module

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng on CentOS 8.

What is speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng

This package contains the espeak-ng output module for Speech Dispatcher.

We can use yum or dnf to install speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng.

Install speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng

Install speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng

How To Uninstall speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng

speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-ng.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/7c114d31bfc2e11318996a40fb27031af06d0b
/usr/lib64/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_espeak-ng

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.