Jack Spratt (fictional detective) Jack Spratt (fictional detective) Jack Spratt is the protagonist in a series of alternate history science fiction fantasy novels by Jasper Fforde. He was named after the character from the English nursery rhyme. As revealed in "The Big Over Easy", for example, he hates eating fat, and was once married to a woman who ate nothing else (hence, she died). Spratt is an obvious satire on the general detective stereotype. Whereas famous detectives such as Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe and Sherlock Holmes have been portrayed as confident, successful, substance-abusing loners, Spratt does not have a substance abuse problem, and is
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