How To Install htsengine on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install htsengine on Ubuntu 22.04. htsengine is frontend of HMM-based speech synthesis engine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install htsengine on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is htsengine

htsengine is:

This engine is software to synthesize speech waveform from Hidden Markov Models (HMM) trained by the HMM-based speech synthesis system (a.k.a. HTS).

This package is a frontend of HTS engine.

There are three methods to install htsengine on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install htsengine Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install htsengine

Install htsengine Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install htsengine using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install htsengine

Install htsengine 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 htsengine using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install htsengine

How To Uninstall htsengine on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the htsengine package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove htsengine

Uninstall htsengine And Its Dependencies

To uninstall htsengine and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove htsengine

Remove htsengine Configurations and Data

To remove htsengine configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge htsengine

Remove htsengine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge htsengine

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install htsengine package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.