Wake Word Detection Voice AI Tools

Tools for detecting specific trigger words or commands in audio streams, typically optimized for embedded/edge devices. Does NOT include general speech recognition, ASR, or speech classification beyond wake-word activation.

There are 58 wake word detection tools tracked. 3 score above 50 (established tier). The highest-rated is Picovoice/porcupine at 67/100 with 4,743 stars. 1 of the top 10 are actively maintained.

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#	Tool	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	Picovoice/porcupine On-device wake word detection powered by deep learning	67	Established	4,743	Python
2	MycroftAI/mycroft-precise A lightweight, simple-to-use, RNN wake word listener	60	Established	959	Python
3	arcosoph/nanowakeword A lightweight, open-source, and intelligent wake word detection engine....	55	Established	48	Python
4	mozilla/DeepSpeech DeepSpeech is an open source embedded (offline, on-device) speech-to-text...	49	Emerging	26,741	C++
5	OAID/cortex-m-kws Cortex M KWS example with Tengine Lite.	45	Emerging	74	C
6	vineeths96/Spoken-Keyword-Spotting In this repository, we explore using a hybrid system consisting of a...	45	Emerging	107	Python
7	zycv/awesome-keyword-spotting This repository is a curated list of awesome Speech Keyword Spotting...	44	Emerging	283	—
8	DmitryRyumin/OpenAV An open-source library for recognition of speech commands in the user...	43	Emerging	7	Python
9	mozilla/DeepSpeech-examples Examples of how to use or integrate DeepSpeech	43	Emerging	858	Python
10	FedericaPaoli1/stm32-speech-recognition-and-traduction stm32-speech-recognition-and-traduction is a project developed for the...	40	Emerging	39	C
11	Adamiito0909/mlx-swift-audio 🎤 Enhance your apps with MLX Swift Audio, offering robust text-to-speech and...	40	Emerging	5	Swift
12	ShawnHymel/tflite-speech-recognition Demo for training a convolutional neural network to classify words and...	39	Emerging	105	Jupyter Notebook
13	mostafaelaraby/Tensorflow-Keyword-Spotting Keyword spotting using various architecture like convolutional vggnet , 1D...	39	Emerging	29	Python
14	harvard-edge/multilingual_kws Few-shot Keyword Spotting in Any Language and Multilingual Spoken Word Corpus	39	Emerging	186	Jupyter Notebook
15	AkshathRaghav/tinyspeech Code release for "TinySpeech: Attention Condensers for Deep Speech...	39	Emerging	21	C
16	bensonruan/Speech-Command Speech Command Recognizer using tensorflowjs	38	Emerging	17	JavaScript
17	ArchitParnami/Few-Shot-KWS Few-Shot Keyword Spotting	36	Emerging	71	Jupyter Notebook
18	andriyadi/Maix-SpeechRecognizer Speech Recognition or Wake Word detection demo, developed using Maixduino...	35	Emerging	52	Objective-C
19	thotnd173389/SpeechCommand The project aims to use keyword spotting streaming in a real-time offline...	35	Emerging	5	Python
20	stgloorious/stm32-speech-recognition Speech Recognition using STM32 and Machine Learning	34	Emerging	18	C
21	boochow/TFLite_Micro_MicroSpeech_M5Stack M5Stack (ESP32) port of TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers demo "Micro Speech"	34	Emerging	31	C++
22	aishoot/Multi-Hotword_Spotting Won't it be cool to build a speech assistant like Alexa or Siri yourself...	33	Emerging	34	Jupyter Notebook
23	Ephrem-ETH/E2E-KWS End-to-End Keyword Spotting (E2E-KWS) using a character level LSTM	32	Emerging	43	Python
24	Jithsaavvy/Deploying-an-end-to-end-keyword-spotting-model-into-cloud-server-by-integrating-CI-CD-pipeline The project is a concoction of research (audio signal processing, keyword...	31	Emerging	23	PureBasic
25	edholmes2232/Speech2Touch Voice Input to USB HID Output. Based on STM32WB55	31	Emerging	21	C
26	huaxiaozhong1/Tensorflow-SparkFunEdge-FullLifeCycel-for-SequenceModel An "AI on-device" project for sequence model. Based at Tensorflow Lite for...	30	Emerging	2	—
27	ryuuji06/keyword-spotting In this repository, I implement a system for detecting specific spoken words...	29	Experimental	19	Python
28	dalehumby/openWakeWord-rhasspy openWakeWord for Rhasspy	29	Experimental	39	Python
29	dkurt/audio_recognition_android Audio recognition on Android with OpenVINO	29	Experimental	1	Java
30	thotnd173389/tdnn_with_swsa Create model keyword spotting using Time Delay Neural Network and Shared...	29	Experimental	7	Python
31	Mmiglio/SpeechRecognition Small-footprint Keyword Spotting	29	Experimental	18	Python
32	jsvir/sparknet [Tiny KWS] SparkNet: Sparse Binarization for Fast Keyword Spotting	29	Experimental	17	Python
33	etosworld/etos-keywordspotting PyTorch implementations of neural network models for keyword spotting	28	Experimental	11	Python
34	trinhtuanvubk/ASR-based-KWS QbE Keyword Spotting System based on ASR	28	Experimental	8	Python
35	sk-g/Speech-Recognition-Tensorflow-Challenge Different CNN Models for keyword spotting in speech recognition	28	Experimental	10	Python
36	vishwakneelamegam/deepspeech-android i have build speech recognition app using mozilla deepspeech	27	Experimental	17	Java
37	Momotoculteur/Keyword-voice-recognition Créer une reconnaissance vocale de mots clés via des algorithmes...	24	Experimental	3	Python
38	daniel-szulc/Speech_Recognition 🎙 Automatic Keyword Speech Recognition for Polish and English in Tensorflow 🧠	23	Experimental	4	Python
39	lgpearson1771/openwakeword-trainer Train custom wake word models with openWakeWord. A granular 13-step pipeline...	23	Experimental	2	Python
40	nyumaya/libnyumaya_esp32 Experimental support for nyumaya audio recognition on ESP32	23	Experimental	4	C++
41	jasonwhwang/tensorflow_micro_speech_mbed Tensorflow Micro Speech Example using Mbed (STM32F49ZI, NUCLEO-F429ZI)	22	Experimental	2	C++
42	Zer0pa/ZPE-Prosody ZPE-Prosody V0.0: DETERMINISTIC SPEECH PROSODY CODEC: Intonation \| Rhythm \|...	22	Experimental	—	Python
43	carmen-martin/Deep-Keyword-Spotting A Small Footprint implementation of Keyword Spotting with different architectures.	22	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
44	Rohit909-creator/EfficientWordNet_Upgrade EfficientWordNet enhances wakeword detection with noise-robust similarity...	21	Experimental	1	Python
45	code2k13/pipico_speech_recognition This repository contains code and instructions to implement single word...	21	Experimental	9	Jupyter Notebook
46	PhysisVerse/physis-vad-swift Modular Swift package for on-device voice activity detection on Apple...	21	Experimental	—	Swift
47	Med-Karim-Ben-Boubaker/Embedded-Speech-Recognition-STM32F407 This project aims to implement a speech command recognition system on an...	20	Experimental	6	C
48	antonin-lfv/ESP32-robot-piloting-with-TinySpeech Offline Keyword Spotting on ESP32-S3. TinySpeech implementation using...	20	Experimental	1	C
49	susnato/Trigger-Word-Detection-From-Live-Audio Trigger Word Detection from live audio	19	Experimental	3	Python
50	moego0/custom_KWS End-to-end pipeline for training a custom keyword detection model with...	19	Experimental	2	Python
51	ebowwa/LocalDiarizationSwiftExample iOS example app demonstrating on-device speaker diarization using FluidAudio...	19	Experimental	2	Swift
52	Otosaku/NeMoSpeaker-iOS Swift library for Speaker Embedding extraction and verification using NVIDIA...	15	Experimental	2	Swift
53	anacletu/tflm-keyword-spotting-led Efficient Keyword Spotting for LED Control with TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers	11	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
54	Weber-PKU/KNNKeywordSpotting A lightweight model for keyword spotting using MFCC and KNN.	11	Experimental	4	Python
55	syw2014/Speech-Processing Repository to collect and design models for speech processing include...	11	Experimental	4	C
56	dheerajkallakuri/High-Accuracy-Keyword-Spotting-on-Edge Real-time audio analysis embedded system to detect specific absolutist keywords.	10	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
57	IhabBendidi/trigger-word-detection An implementation of trigger word detection using keras, for detecting...	10	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
58	AISWARYA-NANDAKUMAR/Wake-Word-Detection-Using-Tiny-ML Wake word detection using Tiny ML. Tensorflow lite is used here. The project...	10	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook

Comparisons in this category

porcupine and mycroft-precise (67 vs 60) porcupine and awesome-keyword-spotting (67 vs 44) porcupine and nanowakeword (67 vs 55) multilingual_kws and Few-Shot-KWS (39 vs 36) stm32-speech-recognition-and-traduction and stm32-speech-recognition (40 vs 34)