How To Install speech-dispatcher-pico on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-pico on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is speech-dispatcher-pico
speech-dispatcher-pico is:
Speech Dispatcher provides a device independent layer for speech synthesis. It supports various software and hardware speech synthesizers as backends and provides a generic layer for synthesizing speech and playing back PCM data via those different backends to applications.
Various high level concepts like enqueueing vs. interrupting speech and application specific user configurations are implemented in a device independent way, therefore freeing the application programmer from having to yet again reinvent the wheel.
This package contains the output module for the pico speech synthesizer.
There are three methods to install speech-dispatcher-pico 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 speech-dispatcher-pico Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install speech-dispatcher-pico using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install speech-dispatcher-pico
Install speech-dispatcher-pico Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install speech-dispatcher-pico using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install speech-dispatcher-pico
Install speech-dispatcher-pico 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 speech-dispatcher-pico using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install speech-dispatcher-pico
How To Uninstall speech-dispatcher-pico on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the speech-dispatcher-pico package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove speech-dispatcher-pico
Uninstall speech-dispatcher-pico And Its Dependencies
To uninstall speech-dispatcher-pico and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove speech-dispatcher-pico
Remove speech-dispatcher-pico Configurations and Data
To remove speech-dispatcher-pico configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge speech-dispatcher-pico
Remove speech-dispatcher-pico configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove speech-dispatcher-pico configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge speech-dispatcher-pico
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-pico package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
