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