Training an Alexa wake word for the Voice PE

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 10:00:00 +0000

We have four Voice PEs around the house, all set up to answer to “Alexa”. The Voice PE doesn’t ship with an Alexa wake word, for reasons I assume involve lawyers, so we’d been running Kevin Ahrendt’s microWakeWord alexa model (the v2 one from ESPHome’s micro-wake-word-models repo). It worked fine for me. It barely worked at all for my wife, and wasn’t much use with women’s voices in general.

You do not want to be the person who fills the house with smart speakers that only listen to you.

Homeassistant — Jason Madigan

Training an Alexa wake word for the Voice PE