Wake word is not activated by female voice

[archonic]

I had the same issue and it’s disappointing that it’s still present at release.

@sparkyvision linked to a guide on recording your own wake word in this thread:

Girlfriend can't wake Mycroft

I’ve had excellent success with training a custom model. (And shameless plug here for some guides I wrote to help you do that!) The biggest hurdle was convincing her to sit down and say the wake-word over and over again, which she does not really see the point of. Thing is, systems like Alexa or Siri have terrifically gigantic userbases that are constantly being fed massive, stupefying amounts of data from across the voice spectrum, whereas projects like this one tend to - when it comes to huma…

Update: Sorry, posted before I read your second post. I haven’t tried to train my own wake word yet but I’ll come back if I figure it out.