How To Install mbrola-en1 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mbrola-en1 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is mbrola-en1
mbrola-en1 is:
This package contains an English diphone database provided in the context of the MBROLA project see: http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/
It provides a British English male voice (known as “Roger’s voice”) to be used with the Mbrola program. It has been built from the original Roger diphones made available by CSTR, University of Edinburgh, as part of their generic text-to-speech system Festival.
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html
Input files use the SAMPA phonetic notation, as adopted in other Mbrola databases. This package also provides the correspondence with the MRPA phonetic notation used in the original distribution of Roger’s voice in the Festival TTS system.
There are three methods to install mbrola-en1 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-en1 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-en1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mbrola-en1
Install mbrola-en1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mbrola-en1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mbrola-en1
Install mbrola-en1 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-en1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mbrola-en1
How To Uninstall mbrola-en1 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the mbrola-en1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mbrola-en1
Uninstall mbrola-en1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mbrola-en1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mbrola-en1
Remove mbrola-en1 Configurations and Data
To remove mbrola-en1 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mbrola-en1
Remove mbrola-en1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mbrola-en1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mbrola-en1
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mbrola-en1 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
