Run your own wake word on a Raspberry Pi

Nine short steps, from picking a phrase to a detector that starts on boot. Each step tells you exactly what to type.

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Check what you need

A Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 (a Pi 3B+ is the minimum), running Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit
A USB microphone, or a microphone HAT
Internet on the Pi for the installation (the wake word itself runs offline)
A way to type commands on the Pi: a keyboard and screen, or SSH from your computer

Not sure which OS you have?On the Pi, run uname -m. You want to see aarch64. If it says armv7l you are on the 32-bit OS, and we recommend reinstalling the 64-bit one.