How To Install pocketsphinx-en-us on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install pocketsphinx-en-us on Ubuntu 18.04. pocketsphinx-en-us is Speech recognition tool - US English language model

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pocketsphinx-en-us on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is pocketsphinx-en-us

pocketsphinx-en-us is:

CMU Sphinx is a large vocabulary, speaker-independent continuous speech recognition engine.

This package contains the default US English language model for PocketSphinx.

There are three methods to install pocketsphinx-en-us 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 pocketsphinx-en-us Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pocketsphinx-en-us

Install pocketsphinx-en-us Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install pocketsphinx-en-us using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install pocketsphinx-en-us

Install pocketsphinx-en-us 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 pocketsphinx-en-us using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pocketsphinx-en-us

How To Uninstall pocketsphinx-en-us on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the pocketsphinx-en-us package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pocketsphinx-en-us

Uninstall pocketsphinx-en-us And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pocketsphinx-en-us

Remove pocketsphinx-en-us Configurations and Data

To remove pocketsphinx-en-us configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pocketsphinx-en-us

Remove pocketsphinx-en-us configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove pocketsphinx-en-us configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pocketsphinx-en-us

References

Summary

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