How To Install speech-dispatcher on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher on Kali Linux. speech-dispatcher is Common interface to speech synthesizers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher on Kali Linux.

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 Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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:

References

Summary

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