speechd-up command not found

Introduction

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

speechd-up: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: speechd-up: command not found

Solutions to speechd-up: command not found

How To Fix speechd-up: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu speechd-up is provided by speechd-up package.

speechd-up is:

SpeechD-Up provides an interface daemon between Speakup (kernel based screen reader) and Speech Dispatcher (common interface to speech synthesis). Using SpeechD-Up, you can make Speakup work with software synthesizers like Flite or Festival. This interface is in no way optimal and it suffers of many problems. Some users still find it useful. If you want to have sound on the console with a commercial speech synthetiser, such as ibmtts, you need a connector between the speech synthetiser and the speakup_soft module. As there has not been any usable connector since Squeeze, this package has this function. It is useless if you use a free speech synthetiser as Espeak, since a connector exists and is packaged: see the espeakup package. It is also useless if you use speechd-el with Emacs.

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

sudo apt-get -y install speechd-up

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

You can also use apt command to install speechd-up.

sudo apt -y install speechd-up

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

sudo aptitude install speechd-up

Summary

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