mkss command not found

Introduction

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

mkss: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mkss: command not found

Solutions to mkss: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mkss is provided by julius package.

julius is:

Julius is a high-performance, two-pass large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) engine.

It supports N-gram based dictation, DFA grammar based parsing, and one-pass isolated word recognition. Phone context dependencies are supported up to triphone. It can perform a multi-model decoding, a recognition using several LMs and AMs simultaneously with a single processor, and also supports “hot plugging” of arbitrary modules at run time.

This package contains the executable applications, a set of tools useful to build recognition grammar and some examples (like a script to use Julius to execute some predetermined commands).

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

sudo apt-get -y install julius

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

You can also use apt command to install julius.

sudo apt -y install julius

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

sudo aptitude install julius

Summary

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