How To Install julius-voxforge on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install julius-voxforge on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is julius-voxforge
julius-voxforge is:
VoxForge is a project which collects transcribed speech corpora release under the GNU General Public License, and uses it to create acoustic models for speech recognition engines.
This package contains 16hHz English acoustic models created for Julius/Julian.
Note that the project is still in a rather early stage and the generated models don’t support all possible combinations of phonemes, limiting the range of words which it is able to recognize.
There are three methods to install julius-voxforge 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 julius-voxforge Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install julius-voxforge using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install julius-voxforge
Install julius-voxforge Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install julius-voxforge using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install julius-voxforge
Install julius-voxforge 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 julius-voxforge using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install julius-voxforge
How To Uninstall julius-voxforge on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the julius-voxforge package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove julius-voxforge
Uninstall julius-voxforge And Its Dependencies
To uninstall julius-voxforge and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove julius-voxforge
Remove julius-voxforge Configurations and Data
To remove julius-voxforge configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge julius-voxforge
Remove julius-voxforge configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove julius-voxforge configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge julius-voxforge
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install julius-voxforge package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
