Mycroft & Moran Mycroft & Moran Mycroft & Moran was an imprint of Arkham House publishers and was created in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1945. The imprint was created to publish weird detective stories and the Solar Pons stories by August Derleth. Arkham retired the imprint in 1982, but has recently allowed it to be revived by another small press publisher. The name of the Mycroft & Moran imprint was derived from two characters in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Mycroft is derived from the name of Sherlock Holmes' brother, Mycroft Holmes. Moran refers to Colonel Sebastian Moran, "the second most dangerous man in
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