As mimic git repo states " Mycroft’s TTS engine, based on CMU’s Flite (Festival Lite) https://mimic.mycroft.ai". What advantage it provide.
Why should I use mimic instead of Flite?
Advantage of mimic over CMU's Flite (Festival Lite)
Unless you have flite setup already, the scripts are built around getting mimic working.
The compiled Footprint of Flite (with CFLAGS = -Os -s -Wall) comes around 16MB where as “eSpeak” footprint was just 2MB with same functionality.
What significant advantages are there that “Mimic” claims under section
Why should I use Mimic instead of other open source TTS tools
I’m also curious about this
As a side note, mimic can use flite voices