Author: sparky

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 nothing like it. So, I’ve been doing some…

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 train your own wake word, as well as…