Mycroft is a FOSS voice assistant. It started using Mozilla’s Deep Speech this spring and the company behind it joined Mozilla’s all hands meeting. According to them, the Things Gateway uses Mycroft’s intent parser.
While I have read about these ties several times on the pages of Mycroft, Mozilla’s teams seem silent about them. The English Mozilla blog does not seem to mention Mycroft a single time, just two non-English posts thank them for their help in gathering Common Voice data (German; Polish). This Discourse instance brings up 4 entries when searching for “Mycroft” – none of them in the IoT section.
As a user I would like to use the Things Gateway as a web interface for Mycroft (e.g. forward voice and text commands to Mycroft). And – not to forget the other way around – theme a Mycroft with the new fox assistant.
Does either side have plans to integrate with the other?
If one was to write an integration, am I correct that it should be a Mycroft skill? (assumption based on this message for a google assistant question)
Is this a collaboration which is mainly beneficial to Mycroft’s corporate side?
Is the business model/ business practice of Mycroft AI, Inc. unacceptable for being mentioned by Mozilla? (They offer hardware bundles as IndieGoGo rewards and they promote those as if one was buying a product instead of funding a project at the user’s risk.)
Looking forward to a reply. In the meantime, I start training Mycroft the wake word “Hey Foxy” . (Or does the assistant already have an official name?)