Install pulseaudio-utils by entering the following commands in the terminal:
sudo apt update sudo apt install pulseaudio-utils
Description:
Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server
PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture. . These tools provide command line access to various features of the PulseAudio sound server. Included tools are: . paplay - Playback a WAV file via a PulseAudio sink. pacat - Cat raw audio data to a PulseAudio sink. parec - Cat raw audio data from a PulseAudio source. pacmd - Connect to PulseAudio's built-in command line control interface. pactl - Send a control command to a PulseAudio server. padsp - /dev/dsp wrapper to transparently support OSS applications. pax11publish - Store/retrieve PulseAudio default server/sink/source settings in the X11 root window.
Homepage: http://www.pulseaudio.org
Version: 1:11.1-1ubuntu7
Section: sound