espeak software package provides Multi-lingual software speech synthesizer, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install espeak
espeak is installed in your system.
Make ensure the espeak package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep espeak *
You will get with espeak package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Sound |
| Package | espeak |
| Version | 1.48.04+dfsg-5 |
| Description | Multi-lingual software speech synthesizer |
| Sub Section | Sound |