I recently worked on a personal project where I wanted to trigger a sound board using a custom wake word. I had been keeping a keen eye on the work being done for local wake word detection in ESPHome and wondered if I could make use of it in this project. While ESPHome is an amazing project, I actually have a few devices flashed with it in my HA setup, it was more than I needed. This repository is the result of my efforts to make micro wake word a standalone component I could use in my own projects.

If you happen to find this useful make sure to send your thanks to those that did all the real work over at ESPHome, especially Kevin Ahrendt 😉.

And of course, here’s a little video of it in action https://youtube.com/shorts/dRHSXZUriEs bqvEoKjWCEACqld0