How To Install speech-dispatcher-ivona on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-ivona
on Ubuntu 22.04.
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 Ubuntu 22.04. 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-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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 22.04
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 Ubuntu 22.04, 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 Ubuntu 22.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-ivona
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.