# Installer mimic avec Homebrew, apt, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de mimic pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:mimic
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install mimic
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install mimic
```

  Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: mimic from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#mimic
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mi/mimic/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:mimic
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.3.0.1
- **Résumé source:** Lightweight text-to-speech engine based on CMU Flite
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic1>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic1>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- compile_regexes (alias)
- mimic (alias)
- mimic_time (alias)
- mimicvox_info (alias)
- t2p (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 1.3.0.1
## Historique du projet et usages

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.

### Historique du projet

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.

### Historique d'adoption

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.

### Modes d'utilisation

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

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mimic>
- <https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic1>
- <https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/mycroft-technologies/mimic-tts/mimic-overview>
- <https://mycroftai.github.io/mimic3-presentation/>
- <https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/mimic/mimic/>


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Debian apt - mimic - 0.7.0+ds-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: mimic from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | eBPF UDP -> TCP obfuscator | https://github.com/hack3ric/mimic
- Debian apt - mimic-dkms - 0.7.0+ds-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: mimic-dkms from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | eBPF UDP -> TCP obfuscator (DKMS kernel module) | https://github.com/hack3ric/mimic
- Nix - mimic: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mi/mimic/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/mimic.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/mimic.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph