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Wake words

Voice assistants usually have a wake word; this is some phrase or word that is spoken before the rest of a command, to get the attention of the voice assistant. It would be something such as the Hey Siri, Hi Google, and Alexa utterances. For Mycroft, the word MyCroft or the phrase Hey MyCroft will suffice.

The voice assistant will usually only be listening for the wake words, and will ignore all audio input until the wake words. The wake word is usually recognized locally on the device, in contrast with the other sounds which are sampled and then sent to a speech-to-text system for recognition.

The MyCroft wake word can be changed.