How To Install pocketsphinx-en-us on Ubuntu 18.04
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
.