How To Install speech-dispatcher-rhvoice 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-rhvoice on Ubuntu.
What is speech-dispatcher-rhvoice
speech-dispatcher-rhvoice is:
RHVoice uses statistical parametric synthesis. It relies on existing open source speech technologies (mainly HTS and related software).
Voices are built from recordings of natural speech. They have small footprints, because only statistical models are stored on users’ computers. And though the voices lack the naturalness of the synthesizers which generate speech by combining segments of the recordings themselves, they are still very intelligible and resemble the speakers who recorded the source material.
Initially, RHVoice could speak only Russian. Now it also supports English, Esperanto and Georgian. In theory, it is possible to implement support for other languages, if all the necessary resources can be found or created.
This package contains the speech dispatcher module to use RHVoice
There are three methods to install speech-dispatcher-rhvoice 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-rhvoice 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-rhvoice using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install speech-dispatcher-rhvoice
Install speech-dispatcher-rhvoice Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install speech-dispatcher-rhvoice using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install speech-dispatcher-rhvoice
Install speech-dispatcher-rhvoice 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-rhvoice using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install speech-dispatcher-rhvoice
How To Uninstall speech-dispatcher-rhvoice on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the speech-dispatcher-rhvoice package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove speech-dispatcher-rhvoice
Uninstall speech-dispatcher-rhvoice And Its Dependencies
To uninstall speech-dispatcher-rhvoice and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove speech-dispatcher-rhvoice
Remove speech-dispatcher-rhvoice Configurations and Data
To remove speech-dispatcher-rhvoice configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge speech-dispatcher-rhvoice
Remove speech-dispatcher-rhvoice configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove speech-dispatcher-rhvoice configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge speech-dispatcher-rhvoice
Dependencies
speech-dispatcher-rhvoice have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install speech-dispatcher-rhvoice package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.