How To Install speech-dispatcher-espeak on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-espeak on Debian 9. speech-dispatcher-espeak is Speech Dispatcher

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-espeak on Debian 9.

What is speech-dispatcher-espeak

speech-dispatcher-espeak is:

Speech Dispatcher provides a device independent layer for speech synthesis. It supports various software and hardware speech synthesizers as backends and provides a generic layer for synthesizing speech and playing back PCM data via those different backends to applications.

Various high level concepts like enqueueing vs. interrupting speech and application specific user configurations are implemented in a device independent way, therefore freeing the application programmer from having to yet again reinvent the wheel.

This package contains the output module for the espeak speech synthesizer.

There are three methods to install speech-dispatcher-espeak on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install speech-dispatcher-espeak Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install speech-dispatcher-espeak

Install speech-dispatcher-espeak Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install speech-dispatcher-espeak

Install speech-dispatcher-espeak 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 speech-dispatcher-espeak using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install speech-dispatcher-espeak

How To Uninstall speech-dispatcher-espeak on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove speech-dispatcher-espeak

Uninstall speech-dispatcher-espeak And Its Dependencies

To uninstall speech-dispatcher-espeak and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove speech-dispatcher-espeak

Remove speech-dispatcher-espeak Configurations and Data

To remove speech-dispatcher-espeak configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge speech-dispatcher-espeak

Remove speech-dispatcher-espeak configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove speech-dispatcher-espeak configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge speech-dispatcher-espeak

Dependencies

speech-dispatcher-espeak have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-espeak package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.