Mycroft Holmes (novel) The Apocalypse Handbook" in 2016 In 2018, Abdul-Jabbar, partnered again with Anna Waterhouse, authored "Mycroft and Sherlock". Mycroft Holmes (novel) Mycroft Holmes is a mystery novel by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse. It involves Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character of Mycroft Holmes, the older brother of Sherlock Holmes, solving a mystery early in his career as a government official. It is Abdul-Jabbar's first adult novel. Mycroft Holmes, secretary to Secretary of State for War Edward Cardwell, and his best friend Cyrus Douglas learn of disturbing reports from Douglas' birthplace Trinidad; stories of children gone missing, Douen, and Lougarou. Holmes' fiancée,
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