htsengine software package provides frontend of HMM-based speech synthesis engine, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install htsengine
htsengine is installed in your system.
Make ensure the htsengine package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep htsengine *
You will get with htsengine package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Sound |
| Package | htsengine |
| Version | 1.08-1 |
| Description | frontend of HMM-based speech synthesis engine |
| Sub Section | Sound |