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

Last updated: December 24,2024

1. Install "espeak-ng-espeak" package

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


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

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


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

Package: espeak-ng-espeak
Architecture: all
Version: 1.50+dfsg-7
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/sound
Source: espeak-ng
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Accessibility Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 23
Provides: espeak
Depends: espeak-ng
Conflicts: espeak
Filename: pool/universe/e/espeak-ng/espeak-ng-espeak_1.50+dfsg-7_all.deb
Size: 3164
MD5sum: 99a8e36781434c86224bf42c1acbcbcb
SHA1: e57365b59dfda028c4c222070d32420048d366e3
SHA256: e7057690d9a3dc5a03b3208e6e673d4387502a163e185949716219d30fa753dd
SHA512: 59127e573e7f2df77f202be35886ec44c582cc016f9a03ce9e2895c53d66334a415f81f8b6ce74585db579e1077c0a6aaa031d1855faff507448461f23664b95
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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This package contains compatibility links that makes it a drop-in replacement
for the espeak package. Installing this package thus allows one to make
applications calling the /usr/bin/espeak program use eSpeak NG without any
modification or rebuild.
Description-md5: b9f92b674c042951eb4c4adc7617637e