Per the manpage: Mimic is a command line tool for synthesizing speech from text. If outfile.wav is omitted mimic will output the utterance using the computer sound card.

Mimic is based on flite and strives to extend functionality and add more languages while keeping the application fast and light.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

$ git clone https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic1.git $ cd mimic1/ $ ./dependencies.sh --prefix="/usr/local" $ ./autogen.sh $ ./configure --prefix="/usr/local" $ make $ make check $ su -c "make install"

I was having issues finding a good voice synthesis for Foliate to read my books to me. I have always had issues with the sound of the espeak and espeak-ng voices. So I was searching for an alternative. I couldn’t find a way to build festival on Slackware (yet) but while searching around found a package called svox that had a SlackBuild so I thought I’d give it a try.