I installed Mycroft because I wanted to play with a voice assistant like Siri without Google or Apple or Microsoft listening in.

So far the experience has been less than satisfying. First issue I had is that I had to crank the microphone gain to maximum (past 100% slider all the way to the right) to get it to here me. Then by default it seems to be more of an artificial stupidity engine than an artificial intelligence engine. Even simple things like "help" it does not understand.