How To Install speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins on Kali Linux.

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 Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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:

• libao4
• libasound2
• libaudio2
• libc6
• libglib2.0-0
• libpulse0

References

• speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.