# No wake word in folder
**URL:** https://community.openconversational.ai/t/no-wake-word-in-folder/12128
**Category:** This category is being retired - Support
**Created:** [April 19, 2022, 9:51am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/no-wake-word-in-folder/12128 "2022-04-19T09:51:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Kyrafox](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/Kyrafox)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2022, 9:51am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/no-wake-word-in-folder/12128/1 "2022-04-19T09:51:43Z")
[Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on laptop]
Hi, I’m new to Mycroft, and have some problems regarding the wakeword. Mycroft wouldn’t respond to any of the wakewords I set it to, so I ran ./start-mycroft.sh wakewordtest. It prompted me with this:
kyrafox@spin:~/mycroft-core$ ./start-mycroft.sh wakewordtest
Already up to date.
Initializing…
Starting wakewordtest
Warning: No wav files found in /home/kyrafox/mycroft-core/test/wake\_word/data/with\_wake\_word
Warning: No wav files found in /home/kyrafox/mycroft-core/test/wake\_word/data/without\_wake\_word
Complete!
What does it mean? I’m not a professional with Linux, so any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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### Author:  [@SGee](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/SGee)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/no-wake-word-in-folder/12128/2 "2022-04-19T15:24:50Z")
i suspect you misinterpret what wakewordtest does. According to [this explanation](https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core/tree/dev/test/wake_word) you have to populate said directories with wav samples to test against it.
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### Author:  [@Kyrafox](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/Kyrafox)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/no-wake-word-in-folder/12128/3 "2022-04-19T17:37:19Z")
Oh, thanks. My bad. Still, Mycroft doesn’t seem to hear me although my mic is on and on a decent volume. (Checked in the settings.). What could it be?
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### Author:  [@SGee](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/SGee)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2022, 6:20pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/no-wake-word-in-folder/12128/4 "2022-04-19T18:20:48Z")
Seems like you’ve already [checked the mic](https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core/blob/dev/bin/mycroft-mic-test)?
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### Author:  [@Kyrafox](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/Kyrafox)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 11:10am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/no-wake-word-in-folder/12128/5 "2022-04-20T11:10:07Z")
Now I have, it started recording and when it stopped, it played back what I said. So I think the mic is working.
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### Author:  [@SGee](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/SGee)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 7:51pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/no-wake-word-in-folder/12128/6 "2022-04-20T19:51:59Z")
Your username indicates you’re female. Mycroft lacks in female voice training data. ([latest Thread](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/girlfriend-cant-wake-mycroft/11790))
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### Author:  [@Kyrafox](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/Kyrafox)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2022, 8:01am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/no-wake-word-in-folder/12128/7 "2022-04-21T08:01:57Z")
Sorry that my username indicates that, actually I’m a male, so I have a male voice too. I have no Idea why Mycroft won’t work. I installed it like it said on the website, started it correctly and also activated it. Oh, wait, one thing I forgot to mention is that when installing it prompted me with some kind of pip-is-out-of-date error, but since it said “you may want to consider upgrading” and not "for Mycroft to work properly, you should upgrade, I didn’t upgrade anything.
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### Author:  [@SGee](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/SGee)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2022, 3:42pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/no-wake-word-in-folder/12128/8 "2022-04-21T15:42:32Z")
> [@Kyrafox](#):
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> pip-is-out-of-date error
pip [is pinned](https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core/blob/f030b7e165f767844f8c29b249a9a3200a227b1d/dev_setup.sh#L488) to 20.0.2, so this is negligible
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### Author:  [@Kyrafox](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/Kyrafox)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2022, 9:34pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/no-wake-word-in-folder/12128/9 "2022-04-21T21:34:09Z")
Thanks, that’s good to know. Perhaps something went wrong when installing PocketSphinx? Is there any way to test/reinstall it?
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### Author:  [@SGee](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/SGee)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/no-wake-word-in-folder/12128/10 "2022-04-21T21:40:52Z")
PocketSphinx? I should have asked (as i supposed `precise`). PS is wonky. Any reason why not `precise`?
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### Author:  [@Kyrafox](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/Kyrafox)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2022, 9:42pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/no-wake-word-in-folder/12128/11 "2022-04-21T21:42:44Z")
It said that my hardware doesn’t currently support precise. I’m on an Acer spin 1 from 2018.