Do you have a problem with that, Dave.

I don't know how well Leon works but Mycroft is not running locally on your own server. It's still a cloud service. I believe it can be run locally but it's very complex and not well supported. At least this was the state last time I looked at it.

For this reason (and their failed Kickstarter) I've never really been into Mycroft. After all it's kinda the same as Alexa/Siri just a slightly more trustworthy party when they say they're not using your data.

I'm just not interested in alternatives until they can run fully locally (not necessarily on device, on a local server or docker is fine)

If this Leon does what it says on the tin it might be just the thing for me.

Mycroft does run on your own server.

It allows you to use the Google text to speech API for more natural voices, which is a cloud product.

It is a yaml config to use on device tts instead.

Install is flashing an sd card.

I thought the detection engine was too complex and not fully open? I remember them looking at Mozilla DeepSpeech or something but that being one of those never ending projects.

I was asking about self hosting on their forum and they were like "just use our hosted service, you can trust us". That's not different enough from Apple/Amazon/Google/Microsoft so I dropped it.

But like I said this was a few years ago. Never looked again since.

Leon can fully run on your own device, it includes the NLP, STT, TTS and so on. More offline STT/TTS solutions are coming up though.