pico2wave command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix pico2wave command not found error message

Introduction

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

pico2wave: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pico2wave: command not found

In Ubuntu pico2wave is provided by libttspico-utils package.

libttspico-utils is:

The SVOX Pico engine is a software speech synthesizer for German, English (GB and US), Spanish, French and Italian.

SVOX produces a clear and distinct speech output made possible by the use of Hidden Markov Model (HMM) algorithms.

This package contains binary files including pico2wave.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libttspico-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install libttspico-utils.

sudo apt -y install libttspico-utils

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

sudo aptitude install libttspico-utils

In this tutorial we learn how to fix pico2wave command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.