How To Install speechd-up on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install speechd-up on Kali Linux.

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 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 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 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 speechd-up using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install speechd-up

How To Uninstall speechd-up on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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:

• libc6
• libdotconf0
• libspeechd2
• speech-dispatcher
• lsb-base

References

• speechd-up website

Summary

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