How To Install speech-dispatcher-flite on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-flite on Debian 10.
What is speech-dispatcher-flite
speech-dispatcher-flite 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 flite speech synthesizer.
There are three methods to install speech-dispatcher-flite on Debian 10. 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-flite 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-flite using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install speech-dispatcher-flite
Install speech-dispatcher-flite Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install speech-dispatcher-flite using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install speech-dispatcher-flite
Install speech-dispatcher-flite 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-flite using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install speech-dispatcher-flite
How To Uninstall speech-dispatcher-flite on Debian 10
To uninstall only the speech-dispatcher-flite package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove speech-dispatcher-flite
Uninstall speech-dispatcher-flite And Its Dependencies
To uninstall speech-dispatcher-flite and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove speech-dispatcher-flite
Remove speech-dispatcher-flite Configurations and Data
To remove speech-dispatcher-flite configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge speech-dispatcher-flite
Remove speech-dispatcher-flite configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove speech-dispatcher-flite configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge speech-dispatcher-flite
Dependencies
speech-dispatcher-flite have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-flite package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.