i cloned the mimic github repository and tried all voices there but those are far away from the one presented in the commercial device Mycroft Mark 1.
I thought this is about open source and open hardware but what about publishing this voice or are there some secret commands to get the existing ones better?
Hi, the same voice is available in mimic as the mark one. In the mimic repo, the one called mycroft_voice_4.0.flitevox is the default mycroft voice.
If you are unsure if it sounds correct you can dump it to a wav-file âmimic -voice PATH_TO_VOICE -t âThis is the text that mimic will outputâ -o out.wavâ and upload it somewhere and I can see if it sounds correct.
The video was made before mimic, instead a remote service was used. For speed and portability mimic was introduced. Higher quality local voices are in the making, not sure if all will be freely available or for subscribers.
At open source projects itâs more supporting than buying IMO. Also I only suggest that, I doesnât can proof it because Iâm not a supporter till now. I think about this option but for this Iâve to dig deeper and get a better understanding for this system/framework.
I might be misunderstanding you but the voice in the demo youâre pointing at sounds exactly like the one I mentioned above. what mimic command line are you executing?
If the voice isnât found it will fall back to a voice thatâs available. some are more robotic than others. kal for instance is very fast to synthesize but sounds robotic.
./mimic -t âMozilla is a free-software community created in 1998 by members of Netscape. The Mozilla community uses, develops, spreads and supports Mozilla products, thereby promoting exclusively free software and open standards, with only minor exceptions.â -voice voices/mycroft_voice_4.0.flitevox
Need to check it again, maybe cut corresponding Youtube snippet 1:50 - 2:07 and compare.