How To Install speech-tools on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-tools on Kali Linux. speech-tools is Edinburgh Speech Tools - user binaries

Introduction

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

What is speech-tools

speech-tools is:

This package contains the various highly useful utility programs that use and accompany the Edinburgh Speech Tools Library. Audio software and some basic signal processing software is included in this package.

The following programs are available: na_play: generic playback program for use with net_audio and CSTR ao. ch_wave: Waveform file conversion program. ch_lab: label file conversion program. ch_track: Track file conversion program. wagon: a CART tree build and test program

See /usr/share/doc/speech-tools/README for detail list of programs available.

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

sudo apt-get -y install speech-tools

Install speech-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install speech-tools

Install speech-tools 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-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install speech-tools

How To Uninstall speech-tools on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove speech-tools

Uninstall speech-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall speech-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove speech-tools

Remove speech-tools Configurations and Data

To remove speech-tools configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge speech-tools

Remove speech-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge speech-tools

Dependencies

speech-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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