I have the desktop version of Mycroft I downloaded on my laptop (Mint 18.3) and was looking for the config file and ran across this jewel in a Mimic config file.
paul-K55A ~ $ cd mycroft-core/
paul-K55A ~/mycroft-core $ ./mimic/bin/mimic_time `date +%H:%M`
The time is now, just after ten to nine, in the morning.
The voice is very high resolution and Irish I believe.
Very interesting. (note the backward single quotes)
The voice in question is the awb voice, we inherited it from flite. You can select it for mycroft if you configure mimic manually in ~/.mycroft/mycroft.conf
By adding the block into the json.
"tts": {
"mimic": {
"voice": "awb"
}
}
If you do it be careful, json is a bit sensitive and the commas need to be in the right places (if you place this last in the existing block add a comma on the line before this one)
That awb voice sounds pretty good. I think the female voice doesn’t exactly sound friendly.IMO. (I hope I don’t step on any toes here.)
I don’t have the ~/.mycroft/mycroft.conf file. I added the “awb” to the DEFAULT mycroft.conf instead. Probably not exactly kosher, but it worked. All this will probably change with mimic 2 anyway.
Thanks for the information and taking a moment to enlighten me.