Wake Word Detection Python Packages

pvporcupine

On-device wake word detection powered by deep learning

hivemind-voice-sat

OVOS voice satellite for HiveMind — full on-device voice stack (microphone, VAD, wake word, STT, TTS)

precise-runner

A lightweight, simple-to-use, RNN wake word listener

picovoice

On-device voice assistant platform powered by deep learning

nanowakeword

A lightweight, wake word detection engine. Train custom, high-accuracy models with minimal effort.

heed-wakeword

Tiny, Apache-2.0 wake-word detection you train yourself and run on-device in Python, the browser, and on mobile.

picovoicedemo

On-device voice assistant platform powered by deep learning

pvporcupinedemo

On-device wake word detection powered by deep learning

tinykw

A lightweight keyword spotting engine for Wake word detection and Voice commands

voiceterm

Low-latency Rust terminal overlay for Codex and Claude Code with local Whisper STT, PTY passthrough, wake words, macros, memory tools, and a customizable HUD.

violawake

Open-source wake word SDK — production TemporalCNN model, 8-phase training pipeline, ONNX inference, Python-first. The open alternative to Porcupine.

ppnrespeakerdemo

On-device wake word detection powered by deep learning

pvrespeakerdemo

On-device voice assistant platform powered by deep learning

jarvis-ui

Light weight UI to interact with Jarvis via API calls

voxpulse

A lightweight CNN-based framework to train custom wake words offline. Features automated data augmentation, dynamic pathing, and RMS silence gating

mycroft-precise

A lightweight, simple-to-use, RNN wake word listener

howl

Wake word detection modeling toolkit for Firefox Voice, supporting open datasets like Speech Commands and Common Voice.

voxrt-wake-word

On-device wake-phrase detection for Linux aarch64 — one glibc-2.17 .so behind Python (PyPI wheel), Node.js (npm), Go (go get), C/C++ (tarball + CMake), Rust. RTF 0.053 on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. Same runtime as voxrt-wake-word-{android,ios}.

liant-precise

A lightweight, simple-to-use, RNN wake word listener

ovos-ww-plugin-nyumaya

mycroft wake word plugin for nyumaya v1.0.0