How To Install speech-dispatcher on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher on CentOS 7.
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. * 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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install speech-dispatcher.
Install speech-dispatcher on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install speech-dispatcher using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install speech-dispatcher
Install speech-dispatcher on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install speech-dispatcher using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install speech-dispatcher
How To Uninstall speech-dispatcher on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the speech-dispatcher package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove speech-dispatcher
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.