How To Install speech-dispatcher-espeak on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-espeak on Kali Linux.
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 Kali Linux. 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install speech-dispatcher-espeak using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install speech-dispatcher-espeakInstall speech-dispatcher-espeak Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install speech-dispatcher-espeak using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install speech-dispatcher-espeakInstall speech-dispatcher-espeak Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install speech-dispatcher-espeak using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install speech-dispatcher-espeakHow To Uninstall speech-dispatcher-espeak on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the speech-dispatcher-espeak package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove speech-dispatcher-espeakUninstall speech-dispatcher-espeak And Its Dependencies
To uninstall speech-dispatcher-espeak and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove speech-dispatcher-espeakRemove speech-dispatcher-espeak Configurations and Data
To remove speech-dispatcher-espeak configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge speech-dispatcher-espeakRemove 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-espeakDependencies
speech-dispatcher-espeak have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-espeak package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
