> Needs to phone MyCroft homebase for setup (didn't look hard enough to figure a way around that) I think part of their documentation said that you can skip th

> Needs to phone MyCroft homebase for setup (didn't look hard enough to figure a way around that) I think part of their documentation said that you can skip that part, if you want. Ah, found it. Their github Readme has a section titled "Using Mycroft Without Home": https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core#using-mycroft-without-home https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core#using-mycroft-with... Apparently, various groups are using some open speech engines (CMUSphinx and Kaldi) to work on internationalization support: https://community.mycroft.ai/t/are-there-any-plans-to-move-from-google-stt-to-something-like-kaldi-or-cmu-sphinx-while-openstt-is-in-development/1494/4 https://community.mycroft.ai/t/are-there-any-plans-to-move-f... > Privacy...not attained. > I shouldn't have to ask Google to open a local file for me. I agree.