Installing espeak-ng on Ubuntu 17.04 LTS
Example of installing espeak-ng on Ubuntu 17.04 LTS using the command sudo apt-get install espeak-ng.
Quick installation of espeak-ng:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: espeak-ng
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install espeak-ng
Package Details | |
| Package: | espeak-ng |
| Version: | 1.49.0+dfsg-2 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ |
| Description: | Multi-lingual software speech synthesizer eSpeak NG is a software speech synthesizer for English, and some other languages. . eSpeak NG produces good quality English speech. It uses a different synthesis method from other open source text to speech (TTS) engines, and sounds quite different. It's perhaps not as natural or "smooth", but some find the articulation clearer and easier to listen to for long periods. . It can run as a command line program to speak text from a file or from stdin. . * Includes different Voices, whose characteristics can be altered. * Can produce speech output as a WAV file. * Can translate text to phoneme codes, so it could be adapted as a front end for another speech synthesis engine. * Potential for other languages. More than 80 languages are included. * Compact size. * Written in C. |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 17.04 |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | universe/sound |
How to install espeak-ng on Ubuntu 17.04?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 17.04 on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If espeak-ng is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L espeak-ng' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L espeak-ng dpkg-query: package 'espeak-ng' is not installed Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing espeak-ng:
After system update use the following command to install espeak-ng:
sudo apt-get install espeak-ng
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 17.04 Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove espeak-ng from Ubuntu 17.04?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the espeak-ng from Ubuntu 17.04. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the espeak-ng following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove espeak-ng
Following command is used to remove the espeak-ng package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove espeak-ng
This will remove espeak-ng and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing espeak-ng with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge espeak-ng
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove espeak-ng
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with espeak-ng package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.