How to Install and Uninstall espeak Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "espeak" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install espeak on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Please follow the steps below to uninstall espeak on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: espeak
Priority: optional
Section: sound
Installed-Size: 205
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Accessibility Team
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.48.04+dfsg-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libespeak1 (>= 1.48.04+dfsg)
Filename: pool/main/e/espeak/espeak_1.48.04+dfsg-2_amd64.deb
Size: 61524
MD5sum: b4a9b47a8870a7dc2c22ac581faa792a
SHA1: 10a2974fa60c2f09309fb536da6e7168639b38dc
SHA256: b5e51cf5690e5be2d8cd0d4183179c637c91d38e023cd57245e89fca90ecac64
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
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 3y
Task: xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-mate-cloudtop