How To Install julius on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install julius on Ubuntu 22.04. julius is speech recognition engine

Introduction

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

What is julius

julius is:

Julius is a high-performance, two-pass large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) engine.

It supports N-gram based dictation, DFA grammar based parsing, and one-pass isolated word recognition. Phone context dependencies are supported up to triphone. It can perform a multi-model decoding, a recognition using several LMs and AMs simultaneously with a single processor, and also supports “hot plugging” of arbitrary modules at run time.

This package contains the executable applications, a set of tools useful to build recognition grammar and some examples (like a script to use Julius to execute some predetermined commands).

There are three methods to install julius 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 julius Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install julius

Install julius Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install julius

Install julius 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 julius using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install julius

How To Uninstall julius on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove julius

Uninstall julius And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove julius

Remove julius Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge julius

Remove julius configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge julius

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Summary

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