Mycroft (software)
| Developer(s) | Mycroft AI team |
|---|---|
| Development status | Active |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | mycroft |
Mycroft is a free and open-source intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator for Linux-based operating systems that uses a natural language user interface. It is named after a fictional computer from 1966 science fiction novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.
Inspiration for Mycroft came when Ryan Sipes and Joshua Montgomery were visiting the Kansas City makerspace, where they came across a simple and basic intelligent virtual assistant project. They were interested in the technology, but did not like its inflexibility.
Mycroft uses an intent parser called Adapt to convert natural language into machine readable data structures. For speech synthesis Mycroft uses Mimic, which is based on Flite. Mycroft is designed to be modular, so users are able to change its components. For example, espeak can be used instead of Mimic.
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