How To Install speech-dispatcher-festival on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-festival on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is speech-dispatcher-festival
speech-dispatcher-festival 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 dependencies on packages necessary for running Speech Dispatcher with Festival.
There are three methods to install speech-dispatcher-festival on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-festival 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-festival using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install speech-dispatcher-festival
Install speech-dispatcher-festival Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install speech-dispatcher-festival using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install speech-dispatcher-festival
Install speech-dispatcher-festival 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-festival using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install speech-dispatcher-festival
How To Uninstall speech-dispatcher-festival on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the speech-dispatcher-festival package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove speech-dispatcher-festival
Uninstall speech-dispatcher-festival And Its Dependencies
To uninstall speech-dispatcher-festival and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove speech-dispatcher-festival
Remove speech-dispatcher-festival Configurations and Data
To remove speech-dispatcher-festival configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge speech-dispatcher-festival
Remove speech-dispatcher-festival configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove speech-dispatcher-festival configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge speech-dispatcher-festival
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-festival package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
