How To Install freetts on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freetts
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is freetts
freetts is:
FreeTTS is a speech synthesis system written entirely in the Java(TM) programming language. It is based upon Flite, a small run-time speech synthesis engine developed at Carnegie Mellon University. Flite in turn is derived from the Festival Speech Synthesis System from the University of Edinburgh and the FestVox project from Carnegie Mellon University.
There are three methods to install freetts
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 freetts Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install freetts
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install freetts
Install freetts Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install freetts
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install freetts
Install freetts 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 freetts
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install freetts
How To Uninstall freetts on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the freetts
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove freetts
Uninstall freetts And Its Dependencies
To uninstall freetts
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove freetts
Remove freetts Configurations and Data
To remove freetts
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge freetts
Remove freetts configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove freetts
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freetts
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freetts
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.