How To Install alsa-plugins-speex on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-plugins-speex on CentOS 7. alsa-plugins-speex is Rate Converter Plugin Using Speex Resampler

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-plugins-speex on CentOS 7.

What is alsa-plugins-speex

The rate plugin is an external rate converter using the Speex resampler (aka Public Parrot Hack) by Jean-Marc Valin. The pcm plugin provides pre-processing of a mono stream like denoise using libspeex DSP API. The rate plugin is an external rate converter using the Speex resampler (aka Public Parrot Hack) by Jean-Marc Valin. The pcm plugin provides pre-processing of a mono stream like denoise using libspeex DSP API.

We can use yum or dnf to install alsa-plugins-speex on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alsa-plugins-speex.

Install alsa-plugins-speex on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install alsa-plugins-speex using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install alsa-plugins-speex

Install alsa-plugins-speex on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install alsa-plugins-speex using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install alsa-plugins-speex

How To Uninstall alsa-plugins-speex on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the alsa-plugins-speex package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove alsa-plugins-speex

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install alsa-plugins-speex on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.