Mimic Speaker is a small app for generating random text that sounds similar to, but very different from, well known works of literature.
Originally built as a ToDoList to experiement with the Slim framework, the project evolved into something a bit more fun. It has seen two overhauls; one to condense a multi-page design into a single page, and the other to convert the ToDoList into the MimicSpeaker. Now that it does something more interesting than list text on a page, core functionality will not change.
Mimic speaker is a PHP heavy app that processes well known works of literature to produce a simple associative data structure, allowing the creation of psuedo-random arrays of words on demand. Because it records which word follows which, the output looks very similar to real speech, and makes sense... sometimes.
This app was built for Composer, making setup of the Slim Framework quick and easy.
Check to see if Composer is installed by running:
composer -VIf you get an error message, go and get Composer
Clone the repo:
git clone [email protected]:MrLukey/MimicSpeaker.git OR https://github.com/MrLukey/MimicSpeaker.gitOnce cloned, you can install the slim components by running:
composer installCreate a MySQL database called mimic_speaker_database and run the code found in db/mimic_speaker_database.sql
Some further config may be required. The PDO settings can be found in src/factories/builtInClassFactories/PDOFactory.php
Once the database is setup, you can run the application locally with:
composer startNavigate to localhost:8080 in a browser to start spamming people!