diff --git a/ovos_tts_plugin_mimic/__init__.py b/ovos_tts_plugin_mimic/__init__.py
index b0d1b86..9dd324a 100755
--- a/ovos_tts_plugin_mimic/__init__.py
+++ b/ovos_tts_plugin_mimic/__init__.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 import subprocess
 from distutils.spawn import find_executable
 from os.path import join, isfile, expanduser
-
+from ovos_plugin_manager.templates.g2p import Grapheme2PhonemePlugin, OutOfVocabulary
 from ovos_plugin_manager.templates.tts import TTS, TTSValidator
 from ovos_utils.configuration import get_xdg_base
 from ovos_utils.configuration import read_mycroft_config
@@ -21,6 +21,61 @@
 from ovos_utils.xdg_utils import xdg_config_home
 
 
+class MimicPhonemesPlugin(Grapheme2PhonemePlugin):
+
+    def __init__(self, config=None):
+        super().__init__(config)
+        self.mimic_bin = expanduser(self.config.get("binary") or
+                                    find_executable("mimic") or
+                                    "mimic")
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def parse_phonemes(phonemes, normalize=False):
+        """Parse mimic phoneme string into a list of phone, duration pairs.
+        Arguments
+            phonemes (bytes): phoneme output from mimic
+        Returns:
+            (list) list of phoneme duration pairs
+        """
+        phon_str = phonemes.decode()
+        pairs = phon_str.replace("pau", ".").split(' ')
+        phones = [pair.split(':') for pair in pairs if ':' in pair]
+        # remove silence at start/end/repeated
+        if normalize:
+            for idx, (pho, dur) in enumerate(phones):
+                next_pho = phones[idx + 1][0] if idx + 1 < len(phones) else None
+                if pho == ".":
+                    if idx == 0 or idx == len(phones) - 1 or next_pho == ".":
+                        phones[idx] = None
+        return [p for p in phones if p is not None]
+
+    def get_mimic_phonemes(self, sentence, normalize=True):
+        args = [self.mimic_bin, '-psdur', '-ssml', '-t', sentence, '-o', '/tmp/mimic.pho']
+        phonemes = subprocess.check_output(args)
+        return self.parse_phonemes(phonemes, normalize)
+
+    def get_arpa(self, word, lang, ignore_oov=True):
+        if lang.lower().startswith("en"):
+            return [p[0].upper() for p in self.get_mimic_phonemes(word)]
+        if ignore_oov:
+            return None
+        raise OutOfVocabulary
+
+    def utterance2visemes(self, utterance, lang="en", default_dur=0.4):
+        phonemes = self.get_mimic_phonemes(utterance, normalize=False)
+        return [(VISIMES.get(pho[0], '4'), float(pho[1])) for pho in phonemes]
+
+    @property
+    def available_languages(self):
+        """Return languages supported by this G2P implementation in this state
+        This property should be overridden by the derived class to advertise
+        what languages that engine supports.
+        Returns:
+            set: supported languages
+        """
+        return {"en"}
+
+
 class MimicTTSPlugin(TTS):
     """Interface to Mimic TTS."""
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f469647..0b66bb2 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ def required(requirements_file):
 
 
 PLUGIN_ENTRY_POINT = 'ovos-tts-plugin-mimic = ovos_tts_plugin_mimic:MimicTTSPlugin'
+G2P_ENTRY_POINT = 'ovos-g2p-plugin-mimic = ovos_tts_plugin_mimic:MimicPhonemesPlugin'
 SAMPLE_CONFIGS = 'ovos-tts-plugin-mimic.config = ovos_tts_plugin_mimic:MimicTTSPluginConfig'
 
 setup(
@@ -83,5 +84,6 @@ def required(requirements_file):
     ],
     keywords='mycroft plugin tts OVOS OpenVoiceOS',
     entry_points={'mycroft.plugin.tts': PLUGIN_ENTRY_POINT,
-                  'mycroft.plugin.tts.config': SAMPLE_CONFIGS}
+                  'mycroft.plugin.tts.config': SAMPLE_CONFIGS,
+                  'ovos.plugin.g2p': G2P_ENTRY_POINT}
 )