Voice Assistant with M5Stack Atom Echo echoes without wake word being used and/or detected

One of my M5Stack Atom Echo is listening in without the wake word being used/detected and responding with: “Sorry, I couldn’t understand that!”

From the logs, I pulled a very strange response:

DEBUG:wyoming_piper.handler:Synthesize(text='Sorry, I am not aware of any area called human beings and the start of the sun, the disperse, the change of the kingdom, the people of the world, the power of the kingdom, the change of the world.', voice=SynthesizeVoice(name='en_GB-alan-low', language=None, speaker=None))

Even in the middle of the night when all is quiet, I hear my M5Stack Atom Echo respond: “Sorry, I couldn’t understand that!”

Home Assistant

  • Core2024.10.3
  • Supervisor2024.10.2
  • Operating System13.2
  • Frontend20241002.3
  • Whisper (2.2.0)
  • Piper (1.5.2),
  • openWakeWord (1.10.0),
  • ESPHome (beta) (2024.10.0)