How to Configure Espeak on Ubuntu 20.4.1

Download the package by using the following command:

root@linuxhelp:~# git clone https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng.git
Cloning into 'espeak-ng'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 102, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (102/102), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (71/71), done.
remote: Total 42431 (delta 42), reused 72 (delta 29), pack-reused 42329
Receiving objects: 100% (42431/42431), 49.57 MiB | 557.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (29260/29260), done.

List the directory:

root@linuxhelp:~# ls -la
total 32
drwx------  5 root root 4096 Jan 11 10:18 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Nov  6 04:51 ..
-rw-------  1 root root  376 Jan  9 12:44 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3106 Dec  5  2019 .bashrc
drwx------  2 root root 4096 Jul 31 22:01 .cache
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Jan 11 10:19 espeak-ng
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  161 Dec  5  2019 .profile
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Jan 11 10:05 snap

Change the directory:

root@linuxhelp:~# cd espeak-ng/

Run the following command to execute the autoconfig package:

root@linuxhelp:~/espeak-ng# apt-get install autoconf automake pkg-config libgtk-3-dev dh-autoreconf
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
pkg-config is already the newest version (0.29.1-0ubuntu4).
pkg-config set to manually installed.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-5.4.0-42 linux-headers-5.4.0-42-generic linux-headers-5.4.0-52 linux-headers-5.4.0-52-generic
  linux-image-5.4.0-42-generic linux-image-5.4.0-52-generic linux-modules-5.4.0-42-generic
  linux-modules-5.4.0-52-generic linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-42-generic linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-52-generic
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  autopoint autotools-dev binutils binutils-common binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu build-essential debhelper
  dh-strip-nondeterminism dpkg-dev dwz fakeroot g++ g++-9 gcc gcc-9 gettext gir1.2-harfbuzz-0.0 icu-devtools
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Run the following command to execute the autogen script:

root@linuxhelp:~/espeak-ng# ./autogen.sh
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'.
libtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh'
libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'm4'.
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/libtool.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltoptions.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltsugar.m4'

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Once completed configure the package by using the below command:

root@linuxhelp:~/espeak-ng# ./configure --prefix=/usr
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking how to print strings... printf
checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU data-style)
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
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Run the following commands to install make packages:

root@linuxhelp:~/espeak-ng# apt install make
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
make is already the newest version (4.2.1-1.2).
make set to manually installed.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-5.4.0-42 linux-headers-5.4.0-42-generic linux-headers-5.4.0-52 linux-headers-5.4.0-52-generic
  linux-image-5.4.0-42-generic linux-image-5.4.0-52-generic linux-modules-5.4.0-42-generic
  linux-modules-5.4.0-52-generic linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-42-generic linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-52-generic
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 209 not upgraded.

Execute the make files by using the below command:

root@linuxhelp:~/espeak-ng# make
make  all-am
make[1]: Entering directory '/root/espeak-ng'
  CC       src/speak-ng.o
In file included from src/speak-ng.c:23:
src/espeak-ng.c: In function ‘main’:
src/espeak-ng.c:744:3: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fread’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
  744 |   fread(p_text, 1, filesize, f_text);
      |   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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root@linuxhelp:~/espeak-ng# make install
make[1]: Entering directory '/root/espeak-ng'
 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/lib'
 /bin/bash ./libtool   --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c   src/libespeak-ng.la '/usr/lib'
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c src/.libs/libespeak-ng.so.1.1.51 /usr/lib/libespeak-ng.so.1.1.51
libtool: install: (cd /usr/lib && { ln -s -f libespeak-ng.so.1.1.51 libespeak-ng.so.1 || { rm -f libespeak-ng.so.1 && ln -s libespeak-ng.so.1.1.51 libespeak-ng.so.1; }; })
libtool: install: (cd /usr/lib && { ln -s -f libespeak-ng.so.1.1.51 libespeak-ng.so || { rm -f libespeak-ng.so && ln -s libespeak-ng.so.1.1.51 libespeak-ng.so; }; })
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c src/.libs/libespeak-ng.lai /usr/lib/libespeak-ng.la
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c src/.libs/libespeak-ng.a /usr/lib/libespeak-ng.a
libtool: install: chmod 644 /usr/lib/libespeak-ng.a
libtool: install: ranlib /usr/lib/libespeak-ng.a
libtool: finish: PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/sbin" ldconfig -n /usr/lib
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Libraries have been installed in:
   /usr/lib

If you ever happen to want to link against installed libraries
in a given directory, LIBDIR, you must either use libtool, and
specify the full pathname of the library, or use the '-LLIBDIR'
flag during linking and do at least one of the following:
   - add LIBDIR to the 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable
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root@linuxhelp:~/espeak-ng# espeak-ng -v en-us --stdout   "hai hello how are you" -s 100  > /home/Downloads/english.mp3

root@linuxhelp:~/espeak-ng# apt install mbrola-us1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-5.4.0-42 linux-headers-5.4.0-42-generic linux-headers-5.4.0-52 linux-headers-5.4.0-52-generic
  linux-image-5.4.0-42-generic linux-image-5.4.0-52-generic linux-modules-5.4.0-42-generic
  linux-modules-5.4.0-52-generic linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-42-generic linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-52-generic
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  mbrola
Suggested packages:
  espeak cicero
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  mbrola mbrola-us1
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 209 not upgraded.
Need to get 6,214 kB of archives.
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root@linuxhelp:~/espeak-ng# espeak-ng --stdout -a 10 -p 50 -v mb-us1  "hai hello how are you" -s 30  > /home/Downloads/english1.mp3