Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install speechd-up on Kali Linux.
What is speechd-up
speechd-up is:
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.
There are three methods to install speechd-up on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install speechd-up Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install speechd-up using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install speechd-up
Install speechd-up Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install speechd-up using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install speechd-upInstall speechd-up Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install speechd-up using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install speechd-up
How To Uninstall speechd-up on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the speechd-up package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove speechd-up
Uninstall speechd-up And Its Dependencies
To uninstall speechd-up and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove speechd-up
Remove speechd-up Configurations and Data
To remove speechd-up configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge speechd-up
Remove speechd-up configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove speechd-up configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge speechd-up
Dependencies
speechd-up have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install speechd-up package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
