The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter is seen writing a story in his blog titled "The Geek Interpreter". In the 2014 episode "The Empty Hearse", Sherlock and his brother Mycroft have a casual competition over analyzing a certain knitted hat, a reference to the discussion in this short story on analyzing a man they see on the street through the window of the Diogenes Club. In the 2015 special, The Abominable Bride, a Mr Melas is also referenced as waiting to see Mycroft after he has discussed a case with his brother and Dr. Watson. In the seventh episode of the NHK puppetry Sherlock Holmes, Sherman,
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