One of the things that's been somewhat difficult to pin down are some of the false activations I've been seeing with Myroft / precise. It's pretty damn good at detecting when I actually say the wake-word, but sometimes it activates at just...the oddest, small sounds, or little blips that sound no...

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Modeling a Custom Wake Word: A Guide for the Dazed, Confused, and Programming-Illiterate

(Like Myself)

I have recently become enamored with an open-source virtual assistant project, name of Mycroft. One of the advantages of this system, besides its focus on privacy and security, is that you can...

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