How To Install librhvoice-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install librhvoice-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. librhvoice-dev is RHVoice speech synthesizer - development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install librhvoice-dev on Debian 12.

What is librhvoice-dev

librhvoice-dev is:

RHVoice uses statistical parametric synthesis. It relies on existing open source speech technologies (mainly HTS and related software).

Voices are built from recordings of natural speech. They have small footprints, because only statistical models are stored on users’ computers. And though the voices lack the naturalness of the synthesizers which generate speech by combining segments of the recordings themselves, they are still very intelligible and resemble the speakers who recorded the source material.

Initially, RHVoice could speak only Russian. Now it also supports English, Esperanto and Georgian. In theory, it is possible to implement support for other languages, if all the necessary resources can be found or created.

This package contains the development files.

There are three methods to install librhvoice-dev on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install librhvoice-dev Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install librhvoice-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install librhvoice-dev

Install librhvoice-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install librhvoice-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install librhvoice-dev

Install librhvoice-dev 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install librhvoice-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install librhvoice-dev

How To Uninstall librhvoice-dev on Debian 12

To uninstall only the librhvoice-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove librhvoice-dev

Uninstall librhvoice-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall librhvoice-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove librhvoice-dev

Remove librhvoice-dev Configurations and Data

To remove librhvoice-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge librhvoice-dev

Remove librhvoice-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove librhvoice-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge librhvoice-dev

Dependencies

librhvoice-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install librhvoice-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.