# mimic を Homebrew, apt, Nix でインストール

mimic のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。

## インストール

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

追加のインストールコマンド:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install mimic
```

  証拠: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install mimic
```

  証拠: 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
```

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

## パッケージ情報

- **パッケージキー:** brew:mimic
- **パッケージマネージャ:** Homebrew
- **バージョン:** 1.3.0.1
- **ソース概要:** Lightweight text-to-speech engine based on CMU Flite
- **ホームページ:** <https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic1>
- **リポジトリ:** <https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic1>
- **生成日時:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 実行可能ファイル

- compile_regexes (エイリアス)
- mimic (エイリアス)
- mimic_time (エイリアス)
- mimicvox_info (エイリアス)
- t2p (エイリアス)

## インストール挙動

- Bottle: 利用不可

## バージョンと鮮度

- ページ生成日: 2026-08-03
- マネージャ版: 1.3.0.1
## プロジェクトの歴史と使われ方

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.

### プロジェクトの歴史

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.

### 採用の歴史

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.

### 使われ方

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.

### ソース

- <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/>


## セキュリティノート

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger リスク:** グリーン / 低
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## 他のパッケージマネージャ記録

- 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)


## ソース

- 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
