How To Install speech-dispatcher-ivona on Debian 12

Learn how to install speech-dispatcher-ivona on Debian 12 with this tutorial. speech-dispatcher-ivona is Speech Dispatcher

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-ivona on Debian 12.

What is speech-dispatcher-ivona

speech-dispatcher-ivona 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 Ivona speech synthesizer, which needs to be installed separately.

There are three methods to install speech-dispatcher-ivona 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-ivona 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-ivona using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install speech-dispatcher-ivona

Install speech-dispatcher-ivona Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install speech-dispatcher-ivona using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install speech-dispatcher-ivona

Install speech-dispatcher-ivona 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-ivona using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install speech-dispatcher-ivona

How To Uninstall speech-dispatcher-ivona on Debian 12

To uninstall only the speech-dispatcher-ivona package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove speech-dispatcher-ivona

Uninstall speech-dispatcher-ivona And Its Dependencies

To uninstall speech-dispatcher-ivona and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove speech-dispatcher-ivona

Remove speech-dispatcher-ivona Configurations and Data

To remove speech-dispatcher-ivona configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge speech-dispatcher-ivona

Remove speech-dispatcher-ivona configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove speech-dispatcher-ivona configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge speech-dispatcher-ivona

Dependencies

speech-dispatcher-ivona have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-ivona package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.