It still relies on 3rd party proprietary STT- which is a huge problem for most of these speech interface projects. The best results in the open-source STT fiel

It still relies on 3rd party proprietary STT- which is a huge problem for most of these speech interface projects. The best results in the open-source STT field are accomplished using a library called Kaldi. However, it's a pain to set up an entire acoustic+phoneme+language model and harder still to run a continuous decoding server. Luckily, a library [0] exists to accomplish this, which might provide an excellent replacement for Mycroft, provided some tweaks to the API. [0] https://github.com/alumae/kaldi-gstreamer-server https://github.com/alumae/kaldi-gstreamer-server