Microsoft BOB VS Mycroft.AI

Microsoft BOB

Microsoft Bob was a 1995 Microsoft software product, intended to provide a more user-friendly...

Mycroft.AI

Mycroft is the world’s first open source assistant.

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The Microsoft Bob Experience: Was It Really THAT Bad?

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Microsoft BOB and Mycroft.AI)

Mycroft.AI

AI Assistant

9 9%

AI Assistant

91% 91

Chatbots

5 5%

Chatbots

95% 95

Knowledge Sharing

5 5%

Knowledge Sharing

95% 95

IoT

100 100%

IoT

0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Mycroft.AI seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 119 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Microsoft BOB mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Microsoft BOB yet. Tracking of Microsoft BOB recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Mycroft.AI mentions (119)

Rabbit R1, Designed by Teenage Engineering
It's indeed suspicious. You're sending your voice samples, your various services accounts, your location and more private data to some proprietary black box in some public cloud. Sorry, but this is a privacy nightmare. It should be open source and self-hosted like Mycroft (https://mycroft.ai) or Leon (https://getleon.ai) to be trustworthy. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
Mycroft
I was expecting this to be about Mycroft the AI assistant ( https://mycroft.ai/ ). - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
Coral TPU Dev Board for speech-to-text and nvidia agx as host running LLaMA??
But I would recommend writing some proper glue logic in Python and use the socket function for communication. But if you really want to get rid of Alexa, it's probably worth it to set up mycroft.ai or another open source assistant. Source: 10 months ago
Matter hasn't revolutionized the smart home yet, but AI may be about to change that - the TechRadar article claims most people don't have smart homes, just connected homes.
Https://mycroft.ai/ is a sophisticated open source replacement for Siri/Alexa … you can buy their premade hardware version for $399. Source: 11 months ago
Local AI -- A semi-reliable copy of human knowledge that can live in a box in your kitchen
To add home automation, consider something like Mycroft (https://mycroft.ai/). Source: 11 months ago