How To Install speech-dispatcher-voxin 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-voxin on Ubuntu.

What is `speech-dispatcher-voxin`

speech-dispatcher-voxin 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 Voxin speech synthesizer, which supports IBM TTS (aka Eloquence) and Vocalizer Embedded, which needs to be installed separately.

There are three methods to install speech-dispatcher-voxin 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-voxin 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-voxin using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install speech-dispatcher-voxin

Install speech-dispatcher-voxin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install speech-dispatcher-voxin using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install speech-dispatcher-voxin

Install speech-dispatcher-voxin 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-voxin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install speech-dispatcher-voxin

How To Uninstall speech-dispatcher-voxin on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the speech-dispatcher-voxin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove speech-dispatcher-voxin

Uninstall speech-dispatcher-voxin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall speech-dispatcher-voxin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove speech-dispatcher-voxin

Remove speech-dispatcher-voxin Configurations and Data

To remove speech-dispatcher-voxin configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge speech-dispatcher-voxin

Remove speech-dispatcher-voxin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove speech-dispatcher-voxin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge speech-dispatcher-voxin

Dependencies

speech-dispatcher-voxin have the following dependencies:

References

speech-dispatcher-voxin website

Summary

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