How to Install and Uninstall espeak Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: February 03,2025

1. Install "espeak" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install espeak on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                espeak
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "espeak" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall espeak on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                espeak
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the espeak package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: espeak
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.48.04+dfsg-8build1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/sound
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Accessibility Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 212
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libespeak1 (>= 1.48.04+dfsg)
Filename: pool/universe/e/espeak/espeak_1.48.04+dfsg-8build1_amd64.deb
Size: 61772
MD5sum: 21821c06a305effdde2a968e07a9df2e
SHA1: 4883db2013b6a39411d52e12fc2818e077fa96f3
SHA256: 1ae5c337565368dcf305615d252c1430cdeeb9b0090f3d1909ecd34d08779ac2
SHA512: 69f9d5689d01c8fd3b0c3832d0b5de3c04c940128fa81b7890a94d285f2aedaf1446709f2542bc56a4d44d3f28c6afa0cc233f7ed618d68a475fabbc37231275
Homepage: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
Description-en: Multi-lingual software speech synthesizer
eSpeak is a software speech synthesizer for English, and some other
languages.
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eSpeak 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.
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It can run as a command line program to speak text from a file or from stdin.
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* 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 40 languages are included.
* Compact size. The program and its data total about 350 kbytes.
* Written in C++.
Description-md5: e4d7ea42a09ed7423403adc9c62ce2f5
Task: xubuntu-desktop