“Ok Makgaiver” wake word model for ESP32 and ESPHome

microWakeWord model for the wake word “Ok Makgaiver”, trained on microwakeword.com from synthetic speech (Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal)). 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
“Ok Makgaiver”
Language of the training voices
Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal)
Trained
2026-09-13 · microWakeWord v2
Training steps
24,000
Recall, clean speech
97.4%
Recall, with background noise
91.2%
False activations on the benchmark set
0.76 per hour at probability cutoff 0.5
Sliding window
5
File
quantized INT8 TFLite, 59 KB, with a micro_wake_word manifest
Downloads
9

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/3367/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.