ESPHome 2024.7.0: microWakeWord version 2 - ESPHome - Smart Home Made Simple

The micro_wake_word component has been updated to “version 2”. This brings the capability to configure multiple models per device and has a vad model for voice activity detection.

The configuration has a breaking change to support these new features.


needs to be changed to the following:


Please see the Documentation for the full configuration.

For the complete list of every merged pull request in this release, see the full 2024.7.0 changelog.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://esphome.io/blog/2024/07/17/esphome-2024-7/