emacspeakconfig command not found

Introduction

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

emacspeakconfig: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: emacspeakconfig: command not found

Solutions to emacspeakconfig: command not found

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

In Ubuntu emacspeakconfig is provided by emacspeak package.

emacspeak is:

Emacspeak is a speech output system that will allow someone who cannot see to work directly on a UNIX system.

Emacspeak is built on top of Emacs. Once Emacs is started with Emacspeak loaded, users get spoken feedback for all actions. As Emacs can do everything, they get speech feedback for everything they do.

This package recommends the speech server for the espeak (software) speech synthesizer, so it should work straight away. However it also contains the source for speech servers to support the DECtalk Express and DECtalk MultiVoice (hardware) speech synthesizers. For other synthesizers, look for speech server packages such as emacspeak-ss and eflite.

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

sudo apt-get -y install emacspeak

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

You can also use apt command to install emacspeak.

sudo apt -y install emacspeak

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

sudo aptitude install emacspeak

Summary

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