CHAPTER 7
Mycroft and Picroft
THIS CHAPTER INTRODUCES an open-source personal voice assistant project named Mycroft. Mycroft has a RasPi variant named Picroft, which I will discuss after going through the Mycroft introduction.
Mycroft’s home website is mycroft.ai. Mycroft is the invention of Ryan Sipes and Joshua Montgomery, who liked the idea of creating a simple and basic intelligent virtual assistant, similar to commercial ones in existence at the time but based entirely on an open-source concept. Mycroft uses only open-source components for the intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator and uses the Linux OS as a platform. The Mycroft developers were very much concerned with privacy issues and strongly believed that developing ...
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