The robot backend provided by the flask menu is good enough to create a Mycroft skill for. The next diagram shows an overview of our voice system:
From the previous diagram, you can see that after you say something with the wake word, upon waking, MyCroft will transmit the next utterance to the Google speech to text system. This will then return the text that Google interpreted.
MyCroft will then match this against vocabulary files for the region you are in and match that with intents set up in the skills. Once matched, an intent in a skill will be invoked. Our robot skill has intents that will mostly make network (HTTP) requests to the Flask Menu server we created for our robot in Chapter 11, Programming Distance Sensors with Python. When the flask server responds to say that the request has been...