How to Install and Uninstall speechd-up Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "speechd-up" package

This is a short guide on how to install speechd-up on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                speechd-up
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "speechd-up" package

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


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                speechd-up
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the speechd-up package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: speechd-up
Priority: optional
Section: universe/sound
Installed-Size: 106
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Accessibility Team
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.5~20110719-5
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libdotconf0 (>= 1.0.13), libspeechd2 (>= 0.7.1)
Filename: pool/universe/s/speechd-up/speechd-up_0.5~20110719-5_amd64.deb
Size: 39598
MD5sum: 310e669ba524bf68f063839e4fbb6d45
SHA1: f32ca810536b8e62e315610696796cb64f63cfa8
SHA256: 1e7af99f48f758ad80dcde7c50a2eeafec4d68c74c4726fb47f99a40f20d4e56
Description-en: Interface between Speech Dispatcher and SpeakUp
SpeechD-Up provides an interface daemon between Speakup (kernel based
screen reader) and Speech Dispatcher (common interface to speech
synthesis). Using SpeechD-Up, you can make Speakup work with software
synthesizers like Flite or Festival. This interface is in no way optimal
and it suffers of many problems. Some users still find it useful.
If you want to have sound on the console with a commercial speech synthetiser,
such as ibmtts, you need a connector between the speech synthetiser and the
speakup_soft module. As there has not been any usable connector since Squeeze,
this package has this function. It is useless if you use a free speech
synthetiser as Espeak, since a connector exists and is packaged: see the
espeakup package. It is also useless if you use speechd-el with Emacs.
Description-md5: b768f15f6d79ccbb0614e0d4759acaa3
Homepage: https://github.com/williamh/speechd-up.git
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu