The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter Sherlock Holmes, far from being a one-off in terms of his powers of observation and deductive reasoning, in fact has an elder brother whose skills, or so Holmes claims, outstrip even his own. As a consequence of this, Watson becomes acquainted with the Diogenes Club and his friend's brother, Mycroft. Mycroft, as Watson learns, does not have the energy of his younger brother and as a consequence is incapable of using his great skills for detective work: In spite of his inertia, the elder Holmes has often delivered the correct answer to a problem that Sherlock has brought to him.
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