# Precise, personal Wake Word for everyone **URL:** https://community.openconversational.ai/t/precise-personal-wake-word-for-everyone/9010 **Category:** Picroft **Created:** [July 2, 2020, 8:04am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/precise-personal-wake-word-for-everyone/9010 "2020-07-02T08:04:39Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 6
### Author: ![JerryTheRobot](https://community.openconversational.ai/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/6a8cbe/32.png) [@JerryTheRobot](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/JerryTheRobot) #### Post date: [July 10, 2020, 7:26am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/precise-personal-wake-word-for-everyone/9010/6 "2020-07-10T07:26:39Z")
Hi guys, i made my train. For now i use only my voice for test, and i use this guide: [https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-precise/issues/94](https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-precise/issues/94) After this i try to put all together in Pycroft but seam not work. I found a solution in this link (i used precise 0.3.0 for make ): [https://community.openconversational.ai/t/precise-wakeword-not-working/8140](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/precise-wakeword-not-working/8140) I need your support again for some troubles with precise on custom skill. 1- Some times ago, I created on raspberry pi 3b my dataset with the custom wake word “hey jerry” and then I modified the configuration file with the following instruction: $ mycroft-config edit user { “max\_allowed\_core\_version”: 20.2, “lang”: “it-it”, “skills”: { “auto\_update”: false, “blacklisted\_skills”: [ “mycroft-wiki”, “mycroft-alarm”, “mycroft-audio-record”, “mycroft-date-time”, “mycroft-npr-news”, “mycroft-singing”, “mycroft-timer”, “mycroft-hello-world”, “mycroft-weather”, “mycroft-personal” ], “priority\_skills”: [ “jerry-data-ora”, “jerry-chi-sei” ] }, “listener”: { “wake\_word”: “ehy\_jerry” }, “hotwords”: { “ehy\_jerry”: { “module”: “precise”, “local\_model\_file”: “/home/pi/mycroft-precise/ehy-jerry.pb”, “phonemes”: “JH EH R IY .”, “threshold”: 1e-18 } } } 2- After this, I restarted Mycroft, but I read from the file voice.log: “a lot of error in ALSA lib conf.c 4568 and conf.c 5047”: 2020-07-09 15:58:17.134 | INFO | 9112 | mycroft.client.speech.listener:create\_wake\_word\_recognizer:323 | Creating wake word engine 2020-07-09 15:58:17.146 | INFO | 9112 | mycroft.client.speech.listener:create\_wake\_word\_recognizer:346 | Using hotword entry for jerry 2020-07-09 15:58:17.152 | INFO | 9112 | mycroft.client.speech.hotword\_factory:load\_module:403 | Loading “jerry” wake word via precise 2020-07-09 15:58:19.202 | INFO | 9112 | mycroft.client.speech.listener:create\_wakeup\_recognizer:360 | creating stand up word engine 2020-07-09 15:58:19.207 | INFO | 9112 | mycroft.client.speech.hotword\_factory:load\_module:403 | Loading “wake up” wake word via pocketsphinx 2020-07-09 15:58:19.375 | INFO | 9112 | mycroft.messagebus.client.client:on\_open:114 | Connected 3- Today, when I pronounce “Hey Jerry!”…nothing happens and I don’t receive feedback from the log file. If I restart it again (Mycroft-stop all and Mycroft-start all), Mycroft catches my wake word, and in the log file I read this: 2020-07-09 16:03:06.027 | INFO | 9672 | **main** :handle\_wakeword:67 | Wakeword Detected: jerry Playing WAVE ‘/home/pi/mycroft-core/mycroft/res/snd/start\_listening.wav’ : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo 2020-07-09 16:03:06.474 | INFO | 9672 | **main** :handle\_record\_begin:37 | Begin Recording… 2020-07-09 16:03:09.359 | INFO | 9672 | **main** :handle\_record\_end:45 | End Recording… 2020-07-09 16:03:10.716 | INFO | 9672 | **main** :handle\_utterance:72 | Utterance: [‘chi ti ha creato’] 4- So, when I restart Mycroft, the custom wake word works and then the skill too, but at the end of the session, the wake word seems “turning off” and, I have to restart all the process explained before to continue. So sometimes Mycroft and precise catch the wake work, other times not. 5 - Using the tool Mycroft-cli-client, I notice that the volume rises when I pronounce “Hey Jerry”. I also tried “alsamixer” to raise and lower my microphone volume (Logitech USB with integrated camera). 6 Here, another example for the log file, that I receive when the wake word is caught for a while and then nothing more: 2020-07-09 16:21:52.576 | INFO | 10501 | mycroft.session:get:74 | New Session Start: 5663591a-4c5c-4053-9c89-501354c33f43 2020-07-09 16:21:52.586 | INFO | 10501 | **main** :handle\_wakeword:67 | Wakeword Detected: jerry Playing WAVE ‘/home/pi/mycroft-core/mycroft/res/snd/start\_listening.wav’ : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo 2020-07-09 16:21:53.613 | INFO | 10501 | **main** :handle\_record\_begin:37 | Begin Recording… 2020-07-09 16:21:55.538 | INFO | 10501 | **main** :handle\_record\_end:45 | End Recording… 2020-07-09 16:21:56.896 | INFO | 10501 | **main** :handle\_utterance:72 | Utterance: [“puoi darmi un po’ d’acqua”] 2020-07-09 16:22:29.611 | INFO | 10501 | **main** :handle\_wakeword:67 | Wakeword Detected: jerry Playing WAVE ‘/home/pi/mycroft-core/mycroft/res/snd/start\_listening.wav’ : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo 2020-07-09 16:22:30.062 | INFO | 10501 | **main** :handle\_record\_begin:37 | Begin Recording… 2020-07-09 16:22:33.281 | INFO | 10501 | **main** :handle\_record\_end:45 | End Recording… 2020-07-09 16:22:34.719 | INFO | 10501 | **main** :handle\_utterance:72 | Utterance: [“puoi darmi un po’ d’acqua”] 2020-07-09 16:23:06.927 | INFO | 10501 | **main** :handle\_wakeword:67 | Wakeword Detected: jerry Playing WAVE ‘/home/pi/mycroft-core/mycroft/res/snd/start\_listening.wav’ : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo 2020-07-09 16:23:07.383 | INFO | 10501 | **main** :handle\_record\_begin:37 | Begin Recording… 2020-07-09 16:23:12.263 | INFO | 10501 | **main** :handle\_record\_end:45 | End Recording… 2020-07-09 16:23:13.714 | INFO | 10501 | **main** :handle\_utterance:72 | Utterance: [“com’è più comodo muoversi a roma”] 2020-07-09 16:23:41.141 | INFO | 10501 | **main** :handle\_wakeword:67 | Wakeword Detected: jerry Playing WAVE ‘/home/pi/mycroft-core/mycroft/res/snd/start\_listening.wav’ : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo 2020-07-09 16:23:41.602 | INFO | 10501 | **main** :handle\_record\_begin:37 | Begin Recording… 2020-07-09 16:23:43.726 | INFO | 10501 | **main** :handle\_record\_end:45 | End Recording… 2020-07-09 16:23:45.084 | INFO | 10501 | **main** :handle\_utterance:72 | Utterance: [‘di cosa sei fatto’] 2020-07-09 16:24:10.693 | INFO | 10501 | **main** :handle\_wakeword:67 | Wakeword Detected: jerry Playing WAVE ‘/home/pi/mycroft-core/mycroft/res/snd/start\_listening.wav’ : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo 2020-07-09 16:24:11.163 | INFO | 10501 | **main** :handle\_record\_begin:37 | Begin Recording… 2020-07-09 16:24:12.707 | INFO | 10501 | **main** :handle\_record\_end:45 | End Recording… 2020-07-09 16:24:13.922 | INFO | 10501 | **main** :handle\_utterance:72 | Utterance: [‘chi sei’] 7 - I did another test too. I had recorded the tone of my voice that precise catches and I had played it on my computer. Same results: sometimes it recognizes the wake word, other times not. I can’t understand what happens and where is the error. Could you please help me with this? Is there a way to do a Mycroft-precise debug, so I could understand why it doesn’t’ catch the wake word? Thank you! --- _[View the full topic](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/precise-personal-wake-word-for-everyone/9010)._