How To Install speech-dispatcher-cicero on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-cicero
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is speech-dispatcher-cicero
speech-dispatcher-cicero 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 the output module for the cicero speech synthesizer.
There are three methods to install speech-dispatcher-cicero
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install speech-dispatcher-cicero 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-cicero
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install speech-dispatcher-cicero
Install speech-dispatcher-cicero Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install speech-dispatcher-cicero
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install speech-dispatcher-cicero
Install speech-dispatcher-cicero 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 speech-dispatcher-cicero
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install speech-dispatcher-cicero
How To Uninstall speech-dispatcher-cicero on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the speech-dispatcher-cicero
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove speech-dispatcher-cicero
Uninstall speech-dispatcher-cicero And Its Dependencies
To uninstall speech-dispatcher-cicero
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove speech-dispatcher-cicero
Remove speech-dispatcher-cicero Configurations and Data
To remove speech-dispatcher-cicero
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge speech-dispatcher-cicero
Remove speech-dispatcher-cicero configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove speech-dispatcher-cicero
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge speech-dispatcher-cicero
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-cicero
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.