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Mycroft

Mycroft may refer to multiple things, most notably a fictional character in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories and an open-source voice assistant project.

Mycroft Holmes is a fictional character who appears in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories as Sherlock

Mycroft AI is an open-source voice assistant project created by the company Mycroft AI, Inc. The project,

Holmes's
elder
brother
and
a
senior
government
official
who
operates
largely
from
behind
the
scenes
in
Whitehall.
In
the
canon,
Mycroft
is
depicted
as
possessing
extraordinary
intellect
and
broad
knowledge
of
national
affairs,
but
he
favors
analysis
over
action
and
rarely
takes
the
field.
He
appears
in
several
stories,
including
The
Greek
Interpreter
and
The
Bruce-Partington
Plans,
and
is
described
as
a
member
of
the
discreet
Diogenes
Club
in
London.
launched
via
crowdfunding
in
2015,
aims
to
provide
a
privacy-respecting,
fully
open
platform
for
voice
interaction.
Core
components
include
Mycroft
Core,
the
Precise
wake
word
detector,
the
Padatious
natural
language
understanding
engine,
and
the
Mimic
text-to-speech
system.
The
software
runs
on
Linux-based
systems,
including
Raspberry
Pi,
and
supports
hardware
with
images
such
as
Picroft.
Users
can
extend
functionality
with
community-created
skills
and,
in
some
cases,
through
a
marketplace.
Mycroft
emphasizes
transparency,
user
control
over
data,
and
interoperability
with
other
services,
offering
an
alternative
to
proprietary
assistants.