I’ve tried everything and Mycroft WILL NOT respond to “Hey Mycroft” at all.
Its a laptop running Kubuntu 20.xx
It easily responds to comments from even farther away when I type 'set a timer". I’ve even purposely mumbled and it still got it right. It just wont respond to any wake word I’ve tried.
Precise and pocketsphinx both do nothing even when I put my mouth directly up to the mic and yell the wake word.
mycroft will read the config files from each location, for personal instances, use ~/.mycroft/mycroft.conf, for system wide stuff you can use /etc/mycroft/mycroft.conf
It hears me when i type “set a timer” and that initiates the listening for me to say, for example, “5 minutes”. Saying “Hey Mycroft” (or any other wake word) doesn’t work at all.
This is a completely default install of Mycroft AI. I’ve also tried completely reinstalling it.
I would continue to tinker with sensitivity, threshold or other settings like shown here
If you want to dig deep it should be beneficial (it sounds like you have a somewhat unique speech pattern) to create a custom wake word. But that process is intense.
I tried installing the non snap version just to see, and it won’t even start listening. It shows the mic level that jumps up and down accordingly to my voice but it won’t even start listening.
I have seen strangeness with the wakeword similar to this. I can easily trigger the wake word, so can my daughter, but my wife cannot trigger it no matter what she tries. My understanding is this is due to the training data that was used to train the model. You may have success training your own wake word using one of the skills found on the forum.
And in this case opting in to the open data set would’t be beneficial (to those who have the problem) because mycroft is hearing everything but the wakeword (or what it identifies as such) - or do i get something wrong there?
It would be beneficial. If it’s hearing that many false positives, when tagging starts back up again they will get classified as such and used to improve the models.