How To Install rhvoice on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rhvoice on Debian 12.
What is rhvoice
rhvoice is:
RHVoice uses statistical parametric synthesis. It relies on existing open source speech technologies (mainly HTS and related software).
Voices are built from recordings of natural speech. They have small footprints, because only statistical models are stored on users’ computers. And though the voices lack the naturalness of the synthesizers which generate speech by combining segments of the recordings themselves, they are still very intelligible and resemble the speakers who recorded the source material.
Initially, RHVoice could speak only Russian. Now it also supports English, Esperanto and Georgian. In theory, it is possible to implement support for other languages, if all the necessary resources can be found or created.
This package contains test tools
There are three methods to install rhvoice on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install rhvoice Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rhvoice using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rhvoice
Install rhvoice Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rhvoice using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rhvoice
Install rhvoice Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install rhvoice using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rhvoice
How To Uninstall rhvoice on Debian 12
To uninstall only the rhvoice package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rhvoice
Uninstall rhvoice And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rhvoice and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rhvoice
Remove rhvoice Configurations and Data
To remove rhvoice configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rhvoice
Remove rhvoice configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rhvoice configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rhvoice
Dependencies
rhvoice have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libgcc-s1
- libglib2.0-0
- libglibmm-2.4-1v5
- librhvoice-audio2
- librhvoice-core7
- libsigc++-2.0-0v5
- libstdc++6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rhvoice package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
