Any excuse to have Sherlock on the blog is good, I say. This time I want to record the fact that there is an open source voice assistant, called Mycroft, code available from GitHub , originating from Kansas City, MO, they say. Mycroft, like Alexa and Bixby , has skills contributed by the community of users. I wanted to buy Mycroft Mark 2, but this seems to be out of stock right now. The other open source voice assistant is called snips . They have a different storyline in mind and Jarvis is the