How To Install librhvoice5 on Debian 12

Learn how to install librhvoice5 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. librhvoice5 is RHVoice speech synthesizer - shared library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install librhvoice5 on Debian 12.

What is librhvoice5

librhvoice5 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 shared library

There are three methods to install librhvoice5 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 librhvoice5 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install librhvoice5 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install librhvoice5

Install librhvoice5 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install librhvoice5 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install librhvoice5

Install librhvoice5 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 librhvoice5 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install librhvoice5

How To Uninstall librhvoice5 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the librhvoice5 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove librhvoice5

Uninstall librhvoice5 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall librhvoice5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove librhvoice5

Remove librhvoice5 Configurations and Data

To remove librhvoice5 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge librhvoice5

Remove librhvoice5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove librhvoice5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge librhvoice5

Dependencies

librhvoice5 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install librhvoice5 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.