How To Install mbrola-de6 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mbrola-de6 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is mbrola-de6
mbrola-de6 is:
This package contains a German diphone database provided in the context of the MBROLA project see: http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/
DE6 is a male German diphone voice created in the context of the EU project NECA (IST-2000-28580), with the aim of being particularly suitable for the flexible synthesis of expressive speech.
The main feature of DE6 is therefore that it contains a complete diphone set for three different voice qualities defined by their vocal effort, low effort (“soft voice”), medium effort (“normal or modal voice”), and high effort (“loud voice”).
This diphone database was recorded jointly by the Institute of Phonetics at Saarland University and by the Language Technology Department at DFKI, Saarbrücken.
There are three methods to install mbrola-de6 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 mbrola-de6 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mbrola-de6 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mbrola-de6
Install mbrola-de6 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mbrola-de6 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mbrola-de6
Install mbrola-de6 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 mbrola-de6 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mbrola-de6
How To Uninstall mbrola-de6 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the mbrola-de6 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mbrola-de6
Uninstall mbrola-de6 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mbrola-de6 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mbrola-de6
Remove mbrola-de6 Configurations and Data
To remove mbrola-de6 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mbrola-de6
Remove mbrola-de6 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mbrola-de6 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mbrola-de6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mbrola-de6 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
