macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install mimiclocal Homebrew formula metadata
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Install mimic with Homebrew, apt, Nix, zypper
Lightweight text-to-speech engine based on CMU Flite. Version 1.3.0.1 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install mimic.
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Additional install commands
Linux
Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install mimicDebian stable package indexes · mimic · source: deb.debian.org
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#mimicnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/mi/mimic/package.nix · source: api.github.com
openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install mimicopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · mimic · source: download.opensuse.org
overview
Package summary
Lightweight text-to-speech engine based on CMU Flite
Project links
Commands and aliases
- compile_regexes
- mimic
- mimic_time
- mimicvox_info
- t2p
history
Project history and usage
Mimic, packaged by Homebrew as `mimic`, is Mycroft AI's first-generation text-to-speech engine. The upstream repository describes it as a fast, lightweight TTS engine developed by Mycroft AI and VocaliD and based on Carnegie Mellon University's Flite, also known as Festival Lite. Mycroft's own docs identify this package as Mimic 1, distinguishing it from later Mimic 2 and Mimic 3 systems.
Project history
Its role in the Mycroft ecosystem was to provide local speech synthesis for a voice assistant and for embedded or low-resource systems. Mycroft's documentation emphasizes low latency, a small resource footprint, Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows support, and a design that can play audio directly or write RIFF/WAV output. Users invoke the `mimic` command with text or a file, choose built-in or external voices, and produce spoken output or audio files.
Adoption history
A distinctive adoption story is the partnership with VocaliD. Mycroft's documentation says Mimic 1 was used as a cross-platform engine for VocaliD clients, helping people with speech disorders use custom voices created from VocaliD's Human Voicebank. That places Mimic beyond a developer CLI: it was also part of accessibility-oriented voice technology.
How it is used
The project later sat beside newer Mycroft TTS engines. Mimic 3's presentation compares the family directly: Mimic 1 is local and Flite-based, Mimic 2 uses Tacotron and is not local, and Mimic 3 is local and neural. As a package-manager entry, `mimic` remains the lightweight Flite-based C command-line engine, with executables for synthesis and supporting voice/regex tools, rather than the neural Mimic 3 stack.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
Why
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 13 platform targets.
- Installs with 2 runtime dependencies.
- Build metadata lists 4 build dependencies.
Recommended review
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executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
compile_regexes | cli | global executable | |
mimic | cli | global executable | |
mimic_time | cli | global executable | |
mimicvox_info | cli | global executable | |
t2p | cli | global executable |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-07-25
manager version1.3.0.1
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic1
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
- infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic1none confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:mimic |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.3.0.1 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mimic |
| Homepage | https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic1 |
| Repository | https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic1 |
| Upstream docs | https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic1 |
| License | MIT-Festival AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND Spencer-86 AND Apache-2.0 AND LicenseRef-Homebrew-cannot-represent |
| Source archive | https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic1/archive/refs/tags/1.3.0.1.tar.gz |
| Dependencies | pcre2, portaudio |
| Build dependencies | autoconf, automake, libtool, pkgconf |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | mimic |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Debian apt95%
mimic 0.7.0+ds-2
eBPF UDP -> TCP obfuscator
https://github.com/hack3ric/mimic
sudo apt install mimic- Section: net
- Architecture: amd64
- 7 dependencies
- 1 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mimic
Debian apt95%
mimic-dkms 0.7.0+ds-2
eBPF UDP -> TCP obfuscator (DKMS kernel module)
https://github.com/hack3ric/mimic
sudo apt install mimic-dkms- Section: kernel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: mimic
- 4 dependencies
- 1 provides
- 8 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mimic
Nix95%
mimic
nix profile install nixpkgs#mimic- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mimic
zypper95%
libttsmimic0 1.3.0.1-3.1
Core libraries of Mycroft's TTS engine
sudo zypper install libttsmimic0- License: BSD-3-Clause AND MIT-CMU
- Category: System/Libraries
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: mimic
- 5 dependencies
- 18 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mimic
zypper95%
mimic 1.3.0.1-3.1
Mycroft's TTS engine, based on CMU's Flite (Festival Lite)
sudo zypper install mimic- License: BSD-3-Clause AND MIT-CMU
- Category: Productivity/Text/Convertors
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: mimic
- 7 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mimic
zypper95%
mimic-devel 1.3.0.1-3.1
Development files for mimic (Mycroft's TTS engine)
sudo zypper install mimic-devel- License: BSD-3-Clause AND MIT-CMU
- Category: Development/Libraries/C and C++
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: mimic
- 3 dependencies
- 2 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Mimic
source trail
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Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment