You can enable saving of recordings to file, this should be your first step to diagnose problems, is the audio inteligible? is it being cropped? too noisy? low volume?
set
"save_utterances": truein your listener config, recordings will be saved to~/.local/share/mycroft/listener/utterances
If the recorded audio looks good to you, maybe you need to use a different STT plugin, maybe the one you are using does not like your microphone, or just isn't very good for your language


