# This AM mycroft has stopped speaking to me
**URL:** https://community.openconversational.ai/t/this-am-mycroft-has-stopped-speaking-to-me/13755
**Category:** This category is being retired - Support
**Created:** [July 6, 2023, 6:54pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/this-am-mycroft-has-stopped-speaking-to-me/13755 "2023-07-06T18:54:02Z")
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### Author:  [@GeeTee](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/GeeTee)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2023, 6:54pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/this-am-mycroft-has-stopped-speaking-to-me/13755/1 "2023-07-06T18:54:02Z")
no audio from MC but it recognizes my commands…
Seems TTS is offline and audio.log is trying to fallback to
Exception: Mimic was not found. Run install-mimic.sh to install it.
Is Mycroft AI having an outtage?
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### Author:  [@JarbasAl](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/JarbasAl)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2023, 6:57pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/this-am-mycroft-has-stopped-speaking-to-me/13755/2 "2023-07-06T18:57:37Z")
It seems you are still using classic mycroft, it has been unmaintained for a long time now
Mycroft’s development has stopped, you most likely want to try OVOS/Neon instead
> [@FAQ: OVOS, Neon, and the Future of the Mycroft Voice Assistant](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/faq-ovos-neon-and-the-future-of-the-mycroft-voice-assistant/13496):
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> FAQ Hello! I’m Chance from OVOS, here to clear up some frequent questions and concerns (such as, what’s OVOS?). …and I’m Clary from Neon AI, your collaboration-supporting forum admin. I’m here to help, please reach out if you have an idea to improve this collaborative space, or need my support to create a wiki or other feature. I’m here to help. This post is a Wiki, which means we welcome contributions from community members. Please feel free to ask either of us any follow-up questions below…
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### Author:  [@GeeTee](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/GeeTee)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2023, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/this-am-mycroft-has-stopped-speaking-to-me/13755/3 "2023-07-06T18:58:46Z")
huh? so why to mycroft server for TTS stop?
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### Author:  [@JarbasAl](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/JarbasAl)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/this-am-mycroft-has-stopped-speaking-to-me/13755/4 "2023-07-06T19:04:07Z")
by default the TTS in classic mycroft is mimic2, which is online, if the server is down then you get no TTS output, the error you shared indicates mimic1 (offline fallback) is not installed, so when mimic2 fails there is nothing there to speak out the message
as mentioned you are using abandoned code, there is noone left in the mycroft team to support the mycroft-core repository anymore, this likely won’t be fixed and i doubt Mimic2 will come up again, there is noone left to even restart the server AFAIK
you really should move to either OVOS or Neon, if you want to stay in classic mycroft then install mimic1 and it should start working, until the main server also goes down…
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### Author:  [@GeeTee](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/GeeTee)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2023, 7:06pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/this-am-mycroft-has-stopped-speaking-to-me/13755/5 "2023-07-06T19:06:21Z")
oh crap. so my elderly parents system is now dead!!!
any idea how to port my existing system to OVOS and or Neon?
I installed mimic 2 per install script but upon reboot it still says it is not installed.
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### Author:  [@JarbasAl](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/JarbasAl)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2023, 7:09pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/this-am-mycroft-has-stopped-speaking-to-me/13755/6 "2023-07-06T19:09:25Z")
you may want to join the ovos chat for help
OVOS is the continuation of mycroft-core, should be fairly easy to move over and things are still mostly compatible, might be a bumpy transition with lacking docs and all that entails, but we will get you back up and running! the goods news is that ovos is fully offline/self hosted, so once you get it setup you won’t get into this situation again, if you dont update OVOS nothing breaks as it doesnt depend on our servers
> **[You're invited to talk on Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/!XFpdtmgyCoPDxOMPpH:matrix.org?via=matrix.org)**
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> You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversation
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### Author:  [@GeeTee](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/GeeTee)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2023, 7:12pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/this-am-mycroft-has-stopped-speaking-to-me/13755/7 "2023-07-06T19:12:26Z")
thanks.
what is the URL for getting started on OVOS
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### Author:  [@GeeTee](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/GeeTee)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/this-am-mycroft-has-stopped-speaking-to-me/13755/8 "2023-07-06T19:16:24Z")
where do i find dev\_setup.sh?
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### Author:  [@builderjer](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/builderjer)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2023, 1:06am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/this-am-mycroft-has-stopped-speaking-to-me/13755/9 "2023-09-02T01:06:22Z")
Not sure if you ever joined the [ovos matrix chat](https://matrix.to/#/!QMaxYxzZZsZPCUgTZw:matrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=mozilla.org&via=kde.org), but that is a very active chat with a lot of support.
Also check out our docs on [installing ovos](https://openvoiceos.github.io/community-docs/qs_intro/)