'Personal assistants like Alexa and Google Home are extremely popular right now, and interest is only growing. It’s not too hard to envision a near future where just about every home has its own AI assistant. What if you don’t want a huge corporation having a direct line into your home? Maybe you want to build your own to understand how they work? Mycroft is the solution. Mycroft is an open-source AI assistant that aims to compete with the likes of Alexa and Google. No, Mycroft isn’t entirely there yet, but the project is still in active development. Mycroft is based on the hugely popular Raspberry Pi, so you can actually set up your own with a Pi and test it out.' -- source: https://www.maketecheasier.com/install-mycroft-on-raspberry-pi/ Apparently, you can use it without creating an account: https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core#using-mycroft-without-home Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/