Multiple voices

Configuration Voice Assistant
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Hi all, i am new to Home assistant, i was wondering if there is a way i can configure HA voice PE to recognise both my partners voice for commands as well as my own? as at the moment it only recognises my voice when giving voice commands.
Thanks

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It should ‘recognize’ your partner as well as yours. Are yih trying to differentiate between the two or?

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Hi Nathan,
So at the moment it doesn’t light up or acknowledge when she is speaking to it via the “hey Jarvis” wake up prompt. However it will always respond everytime I say the wake word. And I’m not sure how or why it won’t respond when she uses the wake word

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That’s a wake word detection issue. (yeah I know, I just said she’s not saying it right…) unfortunately you’ll probably have to try a different wake word. Non English speaker or heavily accented by chance?

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No. She has a pretty standard south England accent, same as myself. It’s very odd.
I’ll try it with a different wake word and see how that goes. For some reason “hey Jarvis” only seems to pick up when I say it lol

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It’s a pretty common complaint actuality especially for non US English speakers. German speakers have a heck of a time finding a wake word I hear…

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I think I may have solved it whole keeping the original wake word.
So went back into it’s set up, during set up your prompted to say the wake words twice. I said it the first time during set up, and my partner said it the second time.
This seems to have cured the little hiccup!

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I have a similar issue. I’ve set the wake word sensitivity to Very High, and we’ve tried the suggestion of redoing setup and having my wife say “Okay Nabu” both times (without me saying it at all).

It basically doesn’t recognise her, but it will recognise me even if I mutter.

Any suggestions to improve this? It’s put a bit of a damper on using the product.

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A few tips from experience:

  • try by adjusting your speaking volume (louder, quieter)
  • the LED on the VPE changes it’s rotation direction between activation (wake word) and listening
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Is it possible to retrain the wake word ourselves? i.e. update the device firmware with our own audio model?

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Yes. It is and it’s probably your only option when it comes to detection problems. You can theoretically train a wake work on exactly how YOU say it…

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Thank you very much!

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these 2 trainers you can drop in your own personal voice samples which should help

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