Installation on Linux

Ubuntu 12.04,14.04,15.04,15.10,16.04,16.10,18.04

Speechrecorder is available as package in an own Apt repository of Institute of Phonetics and Speech processing Munich. To use Speechrecorder you have to add our Apt repository to your Ubuntu installation.

IPS Apt repository installation

Launch application Terminal.

Please copy this commands in a console and execute.

wget -qO - https://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/Bas/software/repos/IPS_APT.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo test -d /etc/apt/sources.list.d || sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/sources.list.d
sudo wget -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/phonetik_uni-muenchen_de_`lsb_release -s -c`.list  https://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/Bas/software/repos/phonetik_uni-muenchen_de_`lsb_release -s -c`.list
sudo apt-get update -yq

Speechrecorder installation

If the repository was successfully added, install Spechrecorder:

sudo apt-get install speechrecorder-dist

or without interaction:

sudo apt-get install -yq speechrecorder-dist

Launch Speechrecorder

Click on the Dash and search for "Speechrecorder"

or launch Terminal and type

speechrecorder

Reinstallation after Ubuntu distribution upgrade

Unfortunately Ubuntu disables third party repositories before upgrade.

Reenable the IPS Apt repository in the Ubuntu software control center or add the repository again.

Speechrecorder deinstallation

sudo apt-get remove speechrecorder-dist speechrecorder

IPS Apt repository deinstallation

sudo apt-key remove E092DDB6
sudo test -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/phonetik_uni-muenchen_de*.list && sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/phonetik_uni-muenchen_de*.list
sudo apt-get update -yq

Modifications:

  1. May 04 2018: Added 18.04 LTS, use HTTPS for key and repository list download, fixed deinstallation command lines
  2. Oct 04 2016: Added paragraph for reinstallation after Ubuntu distribution upgrade
  3. Apr 22 2016: Added Ubuntu versions up to 16.04.
  4. Feb 25 2016: Added instructions to launch SpeechRecorder.
  5. Dec 14 2015: Fixed: wrong option (-a) for lsb_release command.
  6. May 02 2014: Added repository for Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) LTS