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

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "espeak-ng" package

This is a short guide on how to install espeak-ng on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

Please follow the steps below to uninstall espeak-ng on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


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

Package: espeak-ng
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.50+dfsg-7
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: 997
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libespeak-ng1 (>= 1.50+dfsg), libpcaudio0, libsonic0 (>= 0.1.10)
Filename: pool/universe/e/espeak-ng/espeak-ng_1.50+dfsg-7_amd64.deb
Size: 322292
MD5sum: a6fd597505ab9c915ccc6023a71e7567
SHA1: 14c98050ab1520e9b0d21ad773ff9fe6be7a2fd8
SHA256: fce7657333d38b74f7b197ac9916ce3d50f8e566f9f8508c21b4b278d83f8289
SHA512: f4afac844073f148b9d66e327547dedb4f2e1e07dbde6fd3332f2ff314b17a02235385836c43fa5b354d8eaf85a4ab4033fb93edf8c01c206a86ef456456506a
Homepage: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng
Description-en: Multi-lingual software speech synthesizer
eSpeak NG is a software speech synthesizer for English, and some other
languages.
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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.
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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 80 languages are included.
* Compact size.
* Written in C.
Description-md5: 676d7ce1b20e4d6befc5ac58737957be