Just as a bit of fun, I wonder what custom wakeup words people use for their Mycrofts…
Whilst I have no problem with “Mycroft”, for “family acceptance” reasons I felt a less “bookish” name would be better.
I changed mine a few times to find a word long enough and with enough inflection to make it easier for the engine to not false trigger etc. etc. and I ended up with…
Andromeda
I use the Google “voice” for the same reasons as above, which is female, so it seems to fit well
My daughter had an imaginary friend when she was a toddler. Now that she is a teen, I have brought her imaginary friend “Kelsey” to “life”. She thinks that is cool.
I don’t have a Mycroft set up yet (Maybe if I pick up a Pi 3 sometime), but kind of considering renaming it “Crossbar” if I set one up. (Think the old mechanical crossbar exchange switches.) Maybe set it to use a female voice if I find a compatible one that I like.
I had the idea of looking through Shakespearean insults for a name, which probably doesn’t help you with being less bookish, but I didn’t find one I liked so I just use the name Shakespeare
It starts with Precise wake words, then goes onto PocketSphinx. If you want a custom Precise model but not comfortable with the training aspect you can ask in this thread and a community member might help you out, you’d just need to provide the relevant audio samples: Custom wakewords R Us!
I recommend using the mycroft-config helper command to edit your config (in mycroft-core/bin if you didn’t add these to your $PATH during setup). This tool validates your configuration when you save the file. It’s so easy to miss a comma or something and this saves a lot of frustrating debugging.