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The link says it does not exist anymore, where can I download it from?

Not available anymore?

Why the hell is it SO slow when none of the calls to external sources actually involved much processing power?

Is the site offline?

you can put SPANISH ?

I would love to see such products thrive ( more user friendly , open source, privacy focused, not tied with a giant company) and not anti consumer. But you've got to change the design ( talking about the aesthetic) of this. It is not hard to make a good looking box. reach for a product designer (even a student) he will propose a better design. EVERYTHING in the design is not what you should do.

"... which means nothing I have said to it will go out to internet..." That's laughable. Your speech was converted to text and that text was sent out to the Internet. Not much difference, except that text is so much more easily processed, digested, used, and abused by computer programs...on the internet. And no, Alexa is NOT "piping everything up to their servers". I've seen the code - only speech recorded after the wake word is detected -- and the blue light is on -- is sent to the servers. Amazon doesn't want everything -- their servers would melt if they had to deal with 24/7 input from the millions of users in the world. Use your brain. Geezus.

too bad the weather was boring lol good work tho, i been following this project(s) for years now!

So how do you tell mycroft-neon the location of the required weather. In my case it does not know SPAIN!. It can default to a city but my machine seems not to know Madrid is in spain

its great that the voice reconition and actions are local, but the use cases are still boring for both. i want something like the ubuntu phone/tablet concept, where you can say stuff like "motion blur" and it open the motion blur settings on gimp, things like this could improve my productivity since i could rely less on memorizing shortcut keys and pressing unconfortable key combos, or swaping my hands between mouse and keyboard and more on the tasks at hand. or maybe some games where you use voice commands...

Would want a Mycroft, but they're just so prohibitory expensive. I know Alexa is cheaper because I'm whoring out my personal data and privacy, but still.

Is this investment in Neon? Isn’t Mycroft defunct?

6:42 Bunghole1

Is it possible to use Mimic 3 and train an new voice based on an talents voice by reading and recording samples?

Love this, however: 1) it's painfully slow 2) the design of the device is to be blunt, ugly. 3) the voice sounds like Microsoft Sam text to speech.

If only it could play audible I would get rid of Alexa tomorrow.

Can I use MIMIC 3 on a cloud?? I only want their API to work. I have a custom frontend and need the API to convert text to speech

hiii

Alexa wins in this example.

It works without an internet connection. Doesn’t require an account.

Is it not going to be obsolete with the arrival of ChatGPT ?

GBNF...despite their best efforts the Mark II flopped largely because of its clunk-factor as proven by the poorly-planned Alexa side-by-side video. Whoever thought the "retro" design would be a winner did not understand that response latency, even if only a second or two, combined with its poor representation of an early Mac is a sure way to sour a potential consumer's taste/need for an assistant like the Mark II. Not to mention the fact there is no way even a reluctant Echo Show user & developer (raising my hand) could consider the Mark II as-is. Just not yet ready for prime time. Close but no cigar. Caulk one up for (my) big brother Jeff.

It would be great if when this guy said "Hey Mycra, what is the weather?" Mycra answered: "it is the state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc."

This is a bitter pill to digest after getting a mail that all Mycroft kickstarter investors are getting nothing. In fact we're not even getting readily available raspberry pi's shipped so we could DIY build our own units and self 3d print cases. It's very nice to see mycroft is kicking all crowdfunder backers while shipping units that were just pre-ordered from the store.

Alexa is bound too all those companies like spotyfy and google and amazon shop. Voice command ai computers like in star trek are the future but alexa isnt it way to bound and restricted.

This has a lot of opportunities

I built one from a raspberryPie and a screen in 2019 and it worked identically with this, but there were so many bugs, no working API for Spotify and a lot of other issues back then, so I totally lost intrest for the project. And for the commercial variant, it has been delayed so many tims it is almost obsolete by now, and the price is waaaaaaay to high for the functionality

if Mycrofts support controlling a roku i would buy one TODAY.

$500? hahaha you're joking

Mycroft is a scam. Before supporting this company, please research how this company swindled its kickstarter supporters.

An ethical voice assistant made by a company with a Rush fan? Awesome

In the privacy condition of Mycroft: Voice Commands: When you use our Services, your audio commands are transmitted to Mycroft for processing, as part of the Services. We may also collect other metadata about your audio commands, such as the time and location. Your Devices: When you download our software or otherwise use or register a device with us, we collect information about your device, including platform type and location.

Thanks for video, so useful for continue learning more about mycroft <3 #MoreBytesPlease Pd.: Greetings from Colombia

if the 3+ delay between hey mycroft and the beginning of listening to the utterance didnt exist. i'd use this. But its ENTIRELY too damn slow to be of any use for impatient people. This is 2023, there shouldnt be as long of a delay as there is. it literally makes no sense.

Excellent! And very important if you value privacy which is basically gone now and in the wrong hands. I will dig more and learn what mycroft is capable of doing.

So I think the dirty little secret here is EUs are basically funding mycroft to develop for enterprise and that's kinda Sh*tty to build for enterprise off the backs of individuals. 1. This device is WAYYYYYY too expensive. You can buy a whole computer, tablet, or smart phone for 499 and get way more functionality. 2. The Anemic (sub 100) skills available for the mycroft means the device can't DO anything. Of the skills that DO exist, they are gimmicks (Which I suspect is part of why this is JUST an unboxing and not a demo) 3. I think now that there is a stable hardware and software platform Mycroft should consider building skills for popular open source or self hosted projects (Nextcloud, Emby (I know), Plex, GitLab, etc) to attract users. I also don't see why 350$ can't be the price to work down from.

Hey everyone, I just received my Mycroft Mark II in the mail and I am wondering: Is Mike running the Home Assistant *server* **on** the MKII device? And if so, how can I get the same setup? Is this possible with the Dinkum installation shipped with the Mark II? ;) What are we seeing on the screen here?

Love to have it was an integration to home assistant

Backed this project years ago. Nice that it finally will be shipped. I hope the voice can be changed because I'm sure this will creep out my girlfriend and is not gonna be used otherwise.

Hey, can we buy the same box as you ? I'm looking for this kind of box for my Mycroft

You SHOULD register the device on your servers otherwise it not work? There is the need to do this more than once? What happens if you shut down your service?

𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙢 😞

it sounds dead inside even compared to siri, and it has an accent. other than that it looks amazing.

1:40 no USB-C in 2022? D:

Alexa is much faster, what is the reason for such a long delay in Mycroft?

I do not buy products that require activation EVER. I sent back a DJI product for that reason alone. Can you change the wake word to anything you like?

This is already way to complex. I hate products that require activation. Why can't you just turn it on, give it your wifi details and then you are good to go. Activation is never for the customer, its always for your benefit. I really want an Alexa type device that I can use locally, play local music, ask it questions without any of that going back to you. I want a virtual assistant that is mine, not yours. I had Alexa and Google home but they are just corporate snoops. Maps, weather etc. is obviously useful but I don't see why you have to be logged in to anything to do that.

This is awesome. Open source to create customizable services without being tied to commercial services. I just hope there are other options to tunein for audio streams.

Looks great, I wish I could contribute somehow...

Why not usb c?