All about Mycroft with Joshua Montgomery, Steve Penrod and Derick Schweppe

This week, we’re joined by the Mycroft AI team, and we’re getting
deep into designing and developing on the open source alternative
to Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.


If you’ve tried creating voice apps on platforms such as Amazon
Alexa and Google Assistant, then you’ll do doubt be familiar with
their current limitations. Push notifications, monetisation and
all-round flexibility generally leave plenty to be desired.


What if there was an alternative? A platform that really did let
you create whatever you wanted. Something that'll let you
monetise. Something completely open to being used in a way that
you want to use it.


Well, that’s what the team at Mycroft AI have built.






What is Mycroft AI?

Mycroft AI is the world’s first open source voice assistant that
runs anywhere. On desktop, mobile, smart speakers. In cars,
fridges, and washing machines. You name it. You can put it where
you like and do with it what you like as well.


One member of the Mycroft community has hooked the platform up to
a webcam and created a facial recognition feature that uses a
persons face instead of a wake word. When you look at the camera,
the speaker wakes and is ready for you to speak to it!


As well as being open source and flexible, if you create
something exceptional, then it could even become the default
skill for that feature on the platform. That’s like you creating
a really great weather skill on Alexa and Amazon using that as
the default way to tell people the weather!


Plus, your personal data is kept totally private.


And Mycroft aren’t just creating cool software, they have a range
of smart speakers as well. The Mark I speaker is on sale now and
the Mark II is on Indiegogo right now.






Our Guests

Today, we’re joined by Joshua Montgomery, CEO; Steve Penrod, CTO;
and Derick Schweppe, CDO to talk all things Mycroft AI.


We’re also joined again by co-host, Dustin Coates, and we’re
getting into detail about:


Where Mycroft AI came from and the company’s vision for voice
and AI

The differences between Mycroft and the other players such as
Alexa and Google Assistant

The value of an open source voice assistant

About the platform (how it works, how you can get up and
running)

About the range of smart speakers

Privacy and security

The Mycroft community and what people are building

Incentives and reasons to develop on Mycroft AI

Dev Chops with Dustin: a new feature where Dustin gets into
the dev details of the Mycroft platform

Voice design techniques and processes

The future of voice

Links

Visit the Mycroft website

Get Mycroft for developers

Mycroft Mark II on Indigogo

Buy Mycroft Mark 1

Mycroft on Youtube

Mycroft on Twitter

Mycroft community forum

Mycroft chat



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