How To Install speech-dispatcher-ivona on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-ivona on Ubuntu.
What is speech-dispatcher-ivona
speech-dispatcher-ivona 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 Ivona speech synthesizer, which needs to be installed separately.
There are three methods to install speech-dispatcher-ivona on Ubuntu. 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-ivona 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-ivona using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install speech-dispatcher-ivona
Install speech-dispatcher-ivona Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install speech-dispatcher-ivona using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install speech-dispatcher-ivona
Install speech-dispatcher-ivona 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-ivona using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install speech-dispatcher-ivona
How To Uninstall speech-dispatcher-ivona on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the speech-dispatcher-ivona package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove speech-dispatcher-ivona
Uninstall speech-dispatcher-ivona And Its Dependencies
To uninstall speech-dispatcher-ivona and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove speech-dispatcher-ivona
Remove speech-dispatcher-ivona Configurations and Data
To remove speech-dispatcher-ivona configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge speech-dispatcher-ivona
Remove speech-dispatcher-ivona configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove speech-dispatcher-ivona configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge speech-dispatcher-ivona
Dependencies
speech-dispatcher-ivona have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-ivona package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.