How To Install festival-czech on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install festival-czech on Ubuntu 18.04. festival-czech is Czech support for Festival speech synthesis system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install festival-czech on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is festival-czech

festival-czech is:

General Czech language support for Festival, necessary to make Festival speak Czech. This package does not contain Czech Festival voice data, you must additionally install the voice-czech-ph package or another Czech voice.

There are three methods to install festival-czech on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install festival-czech Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install festival-czech using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install festival-czech

Install festival-czech Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install festival-czech

Install festival-czech 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 festival-czech using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install festival-czech

How To Uninstall festival-czech on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the festival-czech package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove festival-czech

Uninstall festival-czech And Its Dependencies

To uninstall festival-czech and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove festival-czech

Remove festival-czech Configurations and Data

To remove festival-czech configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge festival-czech

Remove festival-czech configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge festival-czech

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install festival-czech package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.