It shouldn’t require any top of the line computer. What sort of computer do you have?
It could also be the mic, you can test it using the command ./start-mycroft.se audiotest
And check the mic level indicated in the cli
Mic is okay. My computer is six years old. It’s slow in other areas. It’s an Aspire 4830T-6678
Using the recent picroft image on Voicehat, Mycroft was recognising the wake word, responding in text but no sound. Turned out the default volume setting is zero - duh! I used alsamixer to reset it
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Thanks for letting us know how you fixed it, appreciated.
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I could recoment trying the Auto volume skill - that makes Mycroft adjusting soundlevel acording to surrounding noice level.
And also the picroft-google-aiy-voicekit is a good one 
This one is at the marcket to.
Just in case there is a different problem for others:
I installed mycroft on my laptop Mint 19.1 and had difficulty getting it to respond.
When we speak in our native language without realising it we run words together. I found that I had to make sure each word was separated by a very small gap. After I fine tuned how I said ‘Hey mycroft’ it worked fine. I also had to make sure I did the same with any instructions as to what I wanted it to do.
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