Home Assistant Voice PE - Wake Word

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Having now received our Home Assistant Voice PE and configured it to work with Home Assistant Cloud, I find it’s not quite as responsive to regional accents as I was hoping.

We’ve (collectively as a household) chosen to use “Hey Jarvis” as our wake word. I’d heard that it might respond best to my broad Scottish accent. However, it has been a hit and miss. It responds every time to our kids, who both have milder accents then me and my wife who has an English accent. I also expected it to perform better in a noisy room than it does. I’ve not tried it with music playing or other device noises, but it seems to struggle if too many people are speaking at the same time. I guess that’s more of a learning process for us as we continue to use it.

I did see this on the HA blog

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Does anyone know if this website has been created yet, or is it the same as the open wake word site?

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I’ve got a regular boring south of England accent and its not very responsive for me at all so far either

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I have a very mild North East Scottish accent. I’ve only had my device since this afternoon, but I’ve found that “okay nabu” seems to work better than “hey Jarvis.” However, I don’t find the device particularly responsive, and I don’t think it’s related to my accent. Even if I use my posh telephone voice while sitting in a silent room directly in front of the device, it sometimes still doesn’t register the wake word. On the other hand, if I whisper “hey Google,” a Google Mini on the other side of the room picks it up without any trouble. It’s likely just hardware limitations or the fact that it’s still relatively early in development.