Mimic 3 Text to Speech Plugin

Text to speech plugin for Mycroft using Mimic 3.

• Available voices
• Documentation

Installation

Install the necessary system packages:

sudo apt-get install libespeak-ng1

On 32-bit ARM platforms (a.k.a. armv7l or armhf), you will also need some extra libraries:

sudo apt-get install libatomic1 libgomp1 libatlas-base-dev

Then, ensure that you're using the latest pip:

mycroft-pip install --upgrade pip

Next, install the TTS plugin in Mycroft:

mycroft-pip install mycroft-plugin-tts-mimic3[all]

Removing [all] will install support for English only.

Additional language support can be selectively installed by replacing all with a two-character language code, such as de (German) or fr (French). See setup.py for an up-to-date list of language codes.

Enable the plugin in your mycroft.conf file:

mycroft-config set tts.module mimic3_tts_plug

or you can manually add the following to mycroft.conf with mycroft-config edit user:

"tts": {
  "module": "mimic3_tts_plug"
}

Plugin Options

Additional settings can be configured in mycroft.conf:

"tts": {
  "module": "mimic3_tts_plug",
  "mimic3_tts_plug": {
      "voice": "en_US/cmu-arctic_low",  // default voice
      "speaker": "fem",  // default speaker
      "length_scale": 1.0,  // speaking rate
      "noise_scale": 0.667,  // speaking variablility
      "noise_w": 1.0  // phoneme duration variablility
  }
}