How To Install speechd-up on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install speechd-up on Debian 9.
What is speechd-up
speechd-up is:
SpeechD-Up provides an interface daemon between Speakup (kernel based screen reader) and Speech Dispatcher (common interface to speech synthesis). Using SpeechD-Up, you can make Speakup work with software synthesizers like Flite or Festival. This interface is in no way optimal and it suffers of many problems. Some users still find it useful. If you want to have sound on the console with a commercial speech synthetiser, such as ibmtts, you need a connector between the speech synthetiser and the speakup_soft module. As there has not been any usable connector since Squeeze, this package has this function. It is useless if you use a free speech synthetiser as Espeak, since a connector exists and is packaged: see the espeakup package. It is also useless if you use speechd-el with Emacs.
There are three methods to install speechd-up on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install speechd-up Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install speechd-up using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install speechd-up
Install speechd-up Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install speechd-up using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install speechd-up
Install speechd-up 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 speechd-up using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install speechd-up
How To Uninstall speechd-up on Debian 9
To uninstall only the speechd-up package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove speechd-up
Uninstall speechd-up And Its Dependencies
To uninstall speechd-up and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove speechd-up
Remove speechd-up Configurations and Data
To remove speechd-up configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge speechd-up
Remove speechd-up configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove speechd-up configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge speechd-up
Dependencies
speechd-up have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install speechd-up package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.