“小鸭同学” wake word model for ESP32 and ESPHome

microWakeWord model for the wake word “小鸭同学”, trained on microwakeword.com from synthetic speech (Chinese). It runs on-device on ESP32-S3 boards with ESPHome's micro_wake_word component, including the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition, with no cloud involved.

Model facts

Wake word
“小鸭同学”
Language of the training voices
Chinese
Trained
2026-08-25 · microWakeWord v2
Training steps
20,000
Recall, clean speech
100.0%
Recall, with background noise
99.8%
False activations on the benchmark set
1.51 per hour at probability cutoff 0.5
Sliding window
5
File
quantized INT8 TFLite, 59 KB, with a micro_wake_word manifest
Downloads
23

Add it to your ESPHome device

ESPHome fetches the model straight from this site when it compiles the firmware (ESPHome 2024.7 or newer); nothing to download.

micro_wake_word:
  models:
    - model: https://microwakeword.com/api/models/2612/manifest.json

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Similar wake words in the library

Custom wake words are trained in the Training Center; the library lists every public model with the same measurements.