William Mycroft is a suggestion that Arthur Conan Doyle derived the name of Mycroft the older brother of Sherlock Holmes from William Mycroft. Conan Doyle was a first-class cricketer who later played for MCC and had a respect for fast bowlers. Mycroft played his last first-class match for MCC in 1886. He umpired four first-class matches before his retirement and later umpired two more during the 1891 season. He died of influenza at the age of 53 in Derby. Mycroft's half-brother, Thomas, played for Derbyshire between 1877 and 1885. William Mycroft William Mycroft (1 February 1841 – 19 June 1894) was an
Mycroft (software) Harsh Mistress". Mycroft provides open source software for most parts of the voice stack. Mycroft does Wake Word spotting, also called keyword spotting, through its "Precise" Wake Word engine. Prior to Precise becoming the default Wake Word engine, Mycroft employed PocketSphinx. Instead of being based on phoneme recognition, Precise uses a trained recurrent neural network to distinguish between sounds which are, and which aren't, Wake Words. Mycroft is partnering with Mozilla's Common Voice Project to leverage their DeepSpeech speech to text software. Mycroft uses an intent parser called Adapt to convert natural language into machine-readable data structures. Adapt undertakes intent