gtts-cli command not found

Introduction

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

gtts-cli: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gtts-cli: command not found

Solutions to gtts-cli: command not found

How To Fix gtts-cli: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gtts-cli is provided by python3-gtts package.

python3-gtts is:

A Python interface for Google’s Text to Speech API. Create an mp3 file with the gTTS module or the gtts-cli tool. It allows unlimited lengths to be spoken by tokenizing long sentences where the speech would naturally pause.

This package contains the module for Python 3.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-gtts

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-gtts.

sudo apt -y install python3-gtts

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

sudo aptitude install python3-gtts

Summary

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