speexdec command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

speexdec: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: speexdec: command not found

Solutions to speexdec: command not found

How To Fix speexdec: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu speexdec is provided by speex package.

speex is:

Speex is an audio codec especially designed for compressing voice at low bit-rates for applications such as voice over IP (VoIP). In some senses, it is meant to be complementary to the Vorbis codec which places a greater emphasis on high-quality music reproduction.

This package contains the encoder and decoder command-line applications.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install speex

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install speex.

sudo apt -y install speex

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install speex

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix speexdec command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.