Personal Wake Word for Voice Assistant

Configuration Voice Assistant
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Hello All,

I have tried following Wake words for Assist - Home Assistant to create my own custom wake word (main goal being to be able to trigger my French assistant using a French wake word)

I have gotten all the way to actually trying to use the wake word in the assistant.
I have copied the .tflite file into share/openwakeword.

I am utterly confused as to where I’m supposed to then tell the system to use this wake word.

Below is how I thought it would work i.e by configuring the wake word in the /config/voice-assistants/assistants

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But this does nothing.

The other way I tried to do it is at the Voice PE level but there it does not even show as an option

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What am I missing and/or how should I go about figuring that out ?

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If you do it correctly it will show as an option in the voice pe drop-down with microwakeword.

You’re trying to use openwakeword which requires a lot more setup to have the voice pe use that

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Thks for the reply - quick search of microwakeword didn’t get me anything usable.
Is there a documentation you could point at maybe ?

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This can be run on CPU (No Nvidia GPU required), in general has the instructions for how to run this GitHub - TaterTotterson/microWakeWord-Trainer-Nvidia-Docker: Train microWakeWord for use with HomeAssistant Voice

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Great Thanks this is useful.
But I already have my .tfile, I can’t figure out how to use it as wake word in ha : that is my current issue :blush: (will def try to train another model though!)

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You have a openwakeword tflite which is entirely different from microwakeword (which is what can run on the device itself)

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Ah ok. That’s news to me. Thks for highlighting.
Let’s assume I have a newly trained microwakeword tflite then. Where should I put it so I can use it with my voice PE?

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I can’t see what you have because the drop down box is open , but in the option Wake word engine location, change that to In Home Assistant.

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Once you have the wakeword you put the file where ESPHome has access to it and then you add it to the VPE config

micro_wake_word:
  id: mww
  models:
    - model: /config/microwakeword/models/ha-vpe.json
      id: hey_robot
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Thank you!
But so I need to take control of the voice PE in esp home?
Does that mean I’m missing out on the future updates?

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yes you take control, and I mean updating is as simply as hitting install inside of ESPHome, it always pulls the latest update