Looking forward to getting my mycroft unit - pretty sure one of the first things i’ll try is to add the Star Trek computer sound effects
There’s a sound for “acknowledged”, for “working…”, and probably some others. These would be preferable to having Mycroft say things like “Let me search for that for you…” IMO.
Also, given there’s a couple of seconds lag while mycroft does the STT (ie, sends the recording to whatever cloud service), I think a gentle “acknowledged” sound effect would help reduce the perceived latency. The acknowledged sound effect could be triggered after the wake-word, as soon as silence is detected, while the recording is sent to be recognised. I think this would help with the awkward silence between finishing asking it something, and hearing a response.
(just basing this on seeing videos of mycroft alpha versions in action, not got one yet)
EDIT: TNG, obvs