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Install mimic with Homebrew, apt, Nix

Lightweight text-to-speech engine based on CMU Flite. Version 1.3.0.1 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install mimic.

Install command Security notes

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Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install mimic

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Debian aptverified · 92%

sudo apt install mimic

Debian stable package indexes · mimic · source: deb.debian.org

Nixverified · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#mimic

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/mi/mimic/package.nix · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

Lightweight text-to-speech engine based on CMU Flite

Project links

Homepage

Commands and aliases

compile_regexes
mimic
mimic_time
mimicvox_info
t2p

history

Project history and usage

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.

Project history

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.

Adoption history

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.

How it is used

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

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`compile_regexes`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`mimic`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`mimic_time`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`mimicvox_info`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`t2p`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03

manager version1.3.0.1

manager updated

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:mimic
Version	1.3.0.1
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic1
Repository	https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic1
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Debian apt95%

mimic 0.7.0+ds-2

eBPF UDP -> TCP obfuscator

https://github.com/hack3ric/mimic

sudo apt install mimic

Section: net
Architecture: amd64
7 dependencies
1 optional deps
normalized package name match
Matched by: Mimic

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

Debian apt95%

mimic-dkms 0.7.0+ds-2

eBPF UDP -> TCP obfuscator (DKMS kernel module)

https://github.com/hack3ric/mimic

sudo apt install mimic-dkms

Section: kernel
Architecture: amd64
Source Package: mimic
4 dependencies
1 provides
8 optional deps
normalized package name match
Matched by: Mimic

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

Nix95%

mimic

nix profile install nixpkgs#mimic

normalized package name match
Matched by: Mimic

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

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/mimic.yml

Used sources

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