How To Install speech-dispatcher on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher on Debian 12.
What is speech-dispatcher
speech-dispatcher 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 Speech Dispatcher itself.
There are three methods to install speech-dispatcher 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install speech-dispatcher
Install speech-dispatcher Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install speech-dispatcher using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install speech-dispatcher
Install speech-dispatcher 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install speech-dispatcher
How To Uninstall speech-dispatcher on Debian 12
To uninstall only the speech-dispatcher package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove speech-dispatcher
Uninstall speech-dispatcher And Its Dependencies
To uninstall speech-dispatcher and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove speech-dispatcher
Remove speech-dispatcher Configurations and Data
To remove speech-dispatcher configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge speech-dispatcher
Remove speech-dispatcher configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove speech-dispatcher configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge speech-dispatcher
Dependencies
speech-dispatcher have the following dependencies:
- adduser
- lsb-base
- speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins
- init-system-helpers
- libc6
- libdotconf0
- libglib2.0-0
- libltdl7
- libsndfile1
- libspeechd2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
