How To Install speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins on Debian 12.
What is speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins
speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins is:
Speech Dispatcher provides a device independent layer for speech synthesis. It supports various software and hardware speech synthesizers as backends and provides a generic layer for synthesizing speech and playing back PCM data via those different backends to applications.
Various high level concepts like enqueueing vs. interrupting speech and application specific user configurations are implemented in a device independent way, therefore freeing the application programmer from having to yet again reinvent the wheel.
This package contains all the speech-dispatcher audio output plugins.
There are three methods to install speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins
Install speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins
Install speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins
How To Uninstall speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins on Debian 12
To uninstall only the speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins
Uninstall speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins And Its Dependencies
To uninstall speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins
Remove speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins Configurations and Data
To remove speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins
Remove speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins
Dependencies
speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
