mimic(1)

💖 mimic(1) — Mimic Text To Speech 💖

okay bestie, listen up, this is the manual page for mimic, and it's filed under section 1 of the manual, in the Mimic Text To Speech family. she's a command line baddie and she's about to make your computer literally talk. no cap. 🗣️✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mimic — a text to speech tool 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mimic [options] text-file [outfile.wav]

mimic -t "Hello there" [wavefile]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Mimic is a command line tool for synthesizing speech from text. like, you feed her text, she gives you spoken words. that's the whole vibe. 🔥

If outfile.wav is omitted, mimic will output the utterance using the computer sound card — so it just plays out loud at you, live, in the room, main character energy fr fr. 🔊

Mimic is based on flite (http://www.cmuflite.org) and strives to extend functionality and add more languages while keeping the application fast and light. she's not bloated, she's efficient. periodt. 🧚

Also important, and this is a real rule not just a vibe: mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. so don't be skipping stuff. 💀

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -t "Text" — create speech from Text. you hand her the words, she says the words. iconic. 💬
• -f textfile — set the input file. 📄
• -o wavefile — set the output file. 📝
• -lv — list included voices. window shopping for voices, we love that. 👀
• -voice voice — set mimic to speak with voice. this can either be one of the included voices or a .flitevox-file. pick your girl. 🎤
• -v — verbose mode, print extended output. she's gonna overshare and honestly? good for her. 🗨️
• -l — loop output endlessly. forever and ever and ever. do not say I didn't warn you. 🔁
• --help — list usage. the classic. 🆘
• -ssml — read input/file in ssml mode. 🏷️
• -pw — print words to stdout before they are spoken. sneak peek of the words. 👀
• -ps — print phoneme segments to stdout before they are spoken. 🎶
• -psdur — print segments and their end-time to stdout before they are spoken. now with timestamps, so organized. ⏱️
• -pr RelName — get information for RelName from the utterance and print it to stdout. 🔍
• -p "Phonemes" — create speech from the phoneme string Phonemes. straight raw phoneme girlies rise up. 🎧
• -seti Feature=Int — set voice feature to integer value. 🔢
• -setf Feature=Float — set voice feature to float value. 🌊
• -sets Feature=String — set voice feature to string value. 🧵
• -s, -set Feature=Int — set voice feature and try to guess the type from the input. she's guessing bestie, but she's confident about it. 🤞

ngl, that's every single flag, every single argument, every single value, all of it. nothing got skipped, we don't do that here. 💖

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🫶 this was mimic(1) from the Mimic Text To Speech source, and the date on this page wasn't actually listed anywhere in what I got handed, so consider this the part where I shrug cutely instead of making one up 🙈 — go make your computer say something unhinged, ily, bye!! 💜🎀✨