open_jtalk command not found

Introduction

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

open_jtalk: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: open_jtalk: command not found

Solutions to open_jtalk: command not found

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

In Ubuntu open_jtalk is provided by open-jtalk package.

open-jtalk is:

Open JTalk is a Japanese text-to-speech system based on HTS engine. This program uses Mecab and its dictionary which is optimized for Open JTalk to analyse texts and gets pronunciation.

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

sudo apt-get -y install open-jtalk

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

You can also use apt command to install open-jtalk.

sudo apt -y install open-jtalk

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

sudo aptitude install open-jtalk

Summary

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