Voice Assistant PE too sensitive since beta firmware 25.5.0

Dear community,

the last beta update made the voice assistant PE too sensitive. Just in a single day, it triggered about 5 times without being asked. It was completely random – sometimes from television, sometime my or my wife’s voice. Also, while its speaking, its very difficult to tell him “STOP”.

Did someone experience this too?

The last FW update introduced a new wake-word sensitivity settting – I will try a lower sensitivity setting now, see Release 25.5.0 · esphome/home-assistant-voice-pe · GitHub

Firmware: 25.5.0
ESPHome 2025.5.0
Wake Word sensitivity: Moderately sensitive
Wake Word: Okay Nabu

Cheers!

I’ve just rechecked the PR notes and it really seems, that my Okay Nabu wake-word has become much more sensitive: Add wake word sensitivity selector by kahrendt · Pull Request #403 · esphome/home-assistant-voice-pe · GitHub

@KevinA Maybe this is something you should add more prominent into the firmware release notes :thinking:

Created an issue for voice PE ignoring my STOP commands

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Was fixed with Modify default wake word sensitivity by kahrendt · Pull Request #413 · esphome/home-assistant-voice-pe · GitHub
thanks!