Mimic

A text to voice tool that is part of the MyCroftAI ecosystem.

mimic3

https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3

Install system packages

sudo apt-get install libespeak-ng1 python3 \
     libblas-dev liblapack-dev libatlas-base-dev \
     libopenblas-base libopenblas-dev
 

git clone https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3.git
cd mimic3

Create virtual environment

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip3 install --upgrade pip

pip3 install mycroft-mimic3-tts[all]

Later use

cd mimic3
source .venv/bin/activate

Or in my ``.bash.dI put thismimic.sh`

#echo "checking for mimic3"
if [ -d ~/projects/mimic3 ]; then
        if [ -f ~/projects/mimic3/.venv/bin/activate ]; then
                source ~/projects/mimic3/.venv/bin/activate
        fi
fi