How To Install speech-dispatcher on AlmaLinux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher on AlmaLinux 8.

What is speech-dispatcher

• Common interface to different TTS engines * Handling concurrent synthesis requests – requests may come asynchronously from multiple sources within an application and/or from more different applications. * Subsequent serialization, resolution of conflicts and priorities of incoming requests * Context switching – state is maintained for each client connection independently, event for connections from within one application. * High-level client interfaces for popular programming languages * Common sound output handling – audio playback is handled by Speech Dispatcher rather than the TTS engine, since most engines have limited sound output capabilities.

We can use yum or dnf to install speech-dispatcher on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install speech-dispatcher.

Install speech-dispatcher on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install speech-dispatcher using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install speech-dispatcher

Install speech-dispatcher on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install speech-dispatcher using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install speech-dispatcher

How To Uninstall speech-dispatcher on AlmaLinux 8

To uninstall only the speech-dispatcher package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove speech-dispatcher

References

• speech-dispatcher website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.