How To Install speech-dispatcher-espeak on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-espeak on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 Ubuntu 20.04. 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-espeak package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
