Mycroft Mimic
What's Mycroft Mimic
It is a TTS system delivered with Mycroft (by Nov 2021 it's english only). It's available in two installation types:
- Mimic (version 1) runs locally on device and has an understable but not great quality. But runs on small computer devices like a Raspberry Pi. It's by default the "fallback" if other voices are not available.
- Mimic (version 2) is provided by Mycroft AI server/cloud backend infrastructure and offers a better voice quality (english only).
Tips & Tricks
Build Mimic 1 on device
While setting up a Mycroft device installer will ask to build Mimic 1 locally. If you initially skipped this you can also re-run dev_setup.sh with a -fm flag for "force mimic".
./dev_setup.sh -fm
You can do the opposite, by running flag to "skip mimic":
./dev_setup.sh -sm