The blogpost linked in this submission says the following:

> Mimic 3: Mycroft’s newer, better, privacy-focused neural text-to-speech (TTS) engine. In human terms, that means it can run completely offline and sounds great. To top it all off, it’s open source.

If "skills" are what I think they are (something like external commands, for example "Play X on Spotify"), then my understanding would be that everything but those runs offline and local-only.

But if things like `speech to text` requires internet connection and sends the data to some cloud service, then the entire value proposition of this product falls apart.

I hope that's really not the case, as that would be outright lying and false advertisement.