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dscripka

openwakeword

An open-source audio wake word (or phrase) detection framework with a focus on performance and simplicity.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

openwakeword has 221K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 0.6.0 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2022.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2024.

It is built on top of onnxruntime, requests and scikit-learn. It is used by 13 tracked packages, including ovos-ww-plugin-openwakeword, realtimestt-multiclient and claude-purr.

Downloads
Day
6.4K
Week
38.8K
Month
220.8K
Stars
2.5K
Forks
298
Issues
110
Version
0.6.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
72
Adoption
53
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
188 days ago
Monthly downloads
220,774
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
• Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
220,774
Stars
2,495
Stars per 1k downloads
11.30
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
• Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
5,539
Month daily avg
7,359
Momentum
-24.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
• Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Apache Software License
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
876 days ago
Total releases
9
Releases/year
2.6
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
• Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
8
Monthly downloads
220,774
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
67
 
Issue Burden
44.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
31.3
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
2.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
687d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 3.3K
Windows 1.1K
macOS 528

Python Versions

3.12
45.6% 2.2K
3.11
23.4% 1.1K
3.14
13.4% 645
3.13
12.7% 610
3.10
5.0% 243

Top Countries

1. US US
2.9K
2. IN IN
384
3. DE DE
340
4. BR BR
81
5. NL NL
77
6. BE BE
73
7. FR FR
69
8. CN CN
63
9. ES ES
60
10. KR KR
59

Package Information

License
Apache Software License
First Release
December 29, 2022
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
6 months ago
Latest Version
0.6.0
Total Releases
9
Contributors
8
Open PRs
12
Archived
No
Author
David Scripka
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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