Ubuntu / Debian

From Official Docs · September 25, 2026

Why these matter: portaudio → microphone input / playback for CLI voice mode ffmpeg → audio conversion for TTS and messaging delivery opus → Discord voice codec support espeak-ng → phonemizer backend for NeuTTS

From the official Hermes Agent documentation.

sudo apt install portaudio19-dev ffmpeg libopus0
sudo apt install espeak-ng

• #voice-mode
• #guide
• #docs