emacspeak-espeak-server software package provides espeak syntesis server for emacspeak, 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 emacspeak-espeak-server
emacspeak-espeak-server is installed in your system.
Make ensure the emacspeak-espeak-server package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep emacspeak-espeak-server *
You will get with emacspeak-espeak-server package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Editors |
| Package | emacspeak-espeak-server |
| Version | 44.0+dfsg-1 |
| Description | espeak syntesis server for emacspeak |
| Sub Section | Editors |