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) parsing by matching specific keywords in an order within an utterance. They also have a parser, "Padatious". Padatious, in contrast, uses example-based inference to determine intent. For speech synthesis Mycroft uses Mimic, which is based on the Festival Lite speech synthesis system. Mycroft is designed to be modular, so users are able to change its components. For example, espeak can be used instead of Mimic. The Mycroft project is also working on and selling smart speakers that run its software. All of its hardware is open-source, released under the CERN Open Hardware Licence. Its first hardware project was the Mark