How To Install mbrola-us3 on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install mbrola-us3 on Ubuntu 18.04. mbrola-us3 is American English male voice for Mbrola

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mbrola-us3 on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is mbrola-us3

mbrola-us3 is:

This package contains an American English diphone database provided in the context of the MBROLA project see: http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/

It provides an American English male voice to be used with the MBROLA program.

There are three methods to install mbrola-us3 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-us3 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-us3 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mbrola-us3

Install mbrola-us3 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mbrola-us3 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mbrola-us3

Install mbrola-us3 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-us3 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mbrola-us3

How To Uninstall mbrola-us3 on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the mbrola-us3 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mbrola-us3

Uninstall mbrola-us3 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mbrola-us3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mbrola-us3

Remove mbrola-us3 Configurations and Data

To remove mbrola-us3 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mbrola-us3

Remove mbrola-us3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove mbrola-us3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mbrola-us3

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mbrola-us3 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.