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+# Mimic3 Keyboard
+This is a program which allows you to type or pipe through stdin, into a [Mimic3 API](https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3) instance.
+I wrote it mostly for use with a [Linux TTS Plugin](https://github.com/Minizbot2012/LinuxTTSPlugin)
+as Mimic3 is a nice TTS software.