How To Install speech-dispatcher-flite on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-flite
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is speech-dispatcher-flite
speech-dispatcher-flite 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 flite speech synthesizer.
There are three methods to install speech-dispatcher-flite
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-flite 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-flite
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install speech-dispatcher-flite
Install speech-dispatcher-flite Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install speech-dispatcher-flite
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install speech-dispatcher-flite
Install speech-dispatcher-flite 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-flite
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install speech-dispatcher-flite
How To Uninstall speech-dispatcher-flite on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the speech-dispatcher-flite
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove speech-dispatcher-flite
Uninstall speech-dispatcher-flite And Its Dependencies
To uninstall speech-dispatcher-flite
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove speech-dispatcher-flite
Remove speech-dispatcher-flite Configurations and Data
To remove speech-dispatcher-flite
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge speech-dispatcher-flite
Remove speech-dispatcher-flite configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove speech-dispatcher-flite
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge speech-dispatcher-flite
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-flite
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.