How To Install cicero on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cicero on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is cicero
cicero is:
This Text-To-Speech (TTS) engine speaks French; a preliminary English support is also offered. The engine uses context-sensitive rules to produce phonemes from the text. It relies on MBROLA to generate actual audio output from the phonemes. The TTS engine is implemented using the Python programming language.
The upstream authors have come up with this TTS to try and meet their own needs as blind users. It’s designed to be plugged as output to some screen-review software, firstly with BRLTTY. They favor speed and intelligibility over perfect pronunciation. Cicero is aimed to have a quick response time, the ability to quickly shut-up and skip to another utterance, intelligibility where it counts (not perfect pronunciation), the ability to track speech progression, relative simplicity (hackability) and relative small code size.
There are three methods to install cicero on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cicero Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cicero using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cicero
Install cicero Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cicero using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cicero
Install cicero 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 cicero using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cicero
How To Uninstall cicero on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the cicero package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cicero
Uninstall cicero And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cicero and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cicero
Remove cicero Configurations and Data
To remove cicero configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cicero
Remove cicero configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cicero configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cicero
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cicero package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
