Jump to content

Mycroft (software)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Cydebot (talk | contribs) at 15:50, 4 June 2017 (Robot - Moving category Intelligent software assistants to Category:Virtual assistants per CFD at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2017 May 13.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Mycroft
Developer(s)Mycroft AI team
Repository
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websitemycroft.ai

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.[1] It is named after a fictional computer from 1966 science fiction novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.

History

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.[2][3]

Structure

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.[4] Mycroft is designed to be modular, so users are able to change its components. For example, espeak can be used instead of Mimic.[5][6][7][8]

References

  1. ^ Bhartiya, Swapnil. "2015's most exciting Linux devices". CIO magazine. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
  2. ^ Harrington, Rebecca. "Customize An Open-Source HAL For Your Home". Popular Science. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
  3. ^ Swapnil Bhartiya. "Mycroft: Linux's Own AI". Linux.com. Retrieved April 19, 2016.
  4. ^ Gold, Jon. "Raspberry Pi-based home AI project open-sources key components". Network World. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
  5. ^ Silviu Stahie. "Mycroft Releases Key AI Component as Open Source". Softpedia. Retrieved April 24, 2016.
  6. ^ MSV, Janakiram. "Meet Mycroft, The Open Source Alternative To Amazon Echo". Forbes. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
  7. ^ Stahie, Silviu. "Mycroft Is an AI for Your Home Powered by Raspberry Pi 2 and Ubuntu Snappy". softpedia. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
  8. ^ "Mycroft wants to be your smart-home's brain". CNET. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mycroft_(software)&oldid=783776314"