How To Install mbrola on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mbrola on Kali Linux.

What is mbrola

mbrola is:

Mbrola is Thierry Dutoit’s phonemizer for multilingual speech synthesis. The various diphone databases are distributed on separate packages, but they must be used with and only with Mbrola because of license matters. Read the copyright for details.

Mbrola itself doesn’t provide full TTS. It is a speech synthesizer based on the concatenation of diphones. It takes a list of phonemes as input, together with prosodic information (duration of phonemes and a piecewise linear description of pitch), and produces speech samples on 16 bits (linear), at the sampling frequency of the diphone database.

Use Mbrola along with Freephone, cicero or espeak to have a complete text-to-speech in English.

There are three methods to install mbrola on Kali Linux. 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mbrola

Install mbrola Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mbrola

Install mbrola Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install mbrola

How To Uninstall mbrola on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove mbrola

Uninstall mbrola And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mbrola and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mbrola

Remove mbrola Configurations and Data

To remove mbrola configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mbrola

Remove mbrola configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mbrola

Dependencies

mbrola have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• mbrola website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mbrola package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.