Mycroft Mark II is the voice assistant for the people by the people, doing all the things you’ve come to expect from a voice assistant, but in a transparent and open way. Mycroft Mark II is the voice ...

The Mycroft Mark II is designed to be an open source, privacy-focused alternative to smart speakers and smart displays powered by voice assistant software from Amazon, Apple, or Google. The developers ...

The Mycroft Mark II is a smart display with a 4.3 inch screen, stereo 5 watt speakers, dual microphones with noise cancellation features and a 5MP camera for video calls. It supports WiFi, Bluetooth, ...

LAS VEGAS -- For those who thought last year's CES was full of voice-assisted devices, this year it was even more ubiquitous. Not only did Alexa and Google Assistant have massive exhibits (along with ...

Smart speakers are all the range in tech these days and soon it will be the battle of the titans. But as those giants scuffle, the small men, the consumers, sometimes get trampled on. Especially their ...

Science fiction is full of sinister sentient computers. The most famous is, of course, HAL 9000, the artificially intelligent ship’s computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey, which gains self awareness and ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Kansas City's Mycroft, which developed an open-source voice ...

Those of you searching for an open source personal assistant, offering similar features to those from services provided by hardware like the Amazon Echo and Google Home. You may be interested in the ...

Ask Joshua Montgomery what’s wrong with smart speakers like the Amazon Echo and Google Home, and you’ll likely get a cynical answer. Montgomery is the CEO of Mycroft, which for the past few years has ...

It's only been a few years since Amazon unveiled the Alexa-powered Echo, but since then, smart speakers have become a major consumer-electronics category. Key to its success is the notion of the ...

News briefs for January 26, 2018. The Mycroft Mark II Open Source Voice Assistant (that doesn't spy on you) just launched on Kickstarter. Mycroft source code is available on GitHub. Alphabet, Google's ...