# Hey Donut

A custom wake-word model for Home Assistant voice assistants, built with microWakeWord, that runs entirely on-device and comes with its full training pipeline so a user can train the same setup on any name of their own.

Hey Donut is a wake-word model that teaches a Home Assistant voice satellite to respond to the phrase "Hey Donut," running entirely on-device through the microWakeWord framework with no cloud service or account involved. The model ships as two small files, an int8-quantized streaming TensorFlow Lite model and a manifest, and is installed by referencing the manifest in an ESPHome voice-satellite configuration.

A second version of the model was retrained on recordings of the phrase as people actually say it, including fast or glottal-stopped pronunciations that the first version had been trained to reject, substantially improving its detection rate at the same false-accept rate. The repository includes the complete training pipeline under a public-domain license, so it can be used as a starting point to train a wake word for a different name instead of "Donut."

Website: https://github.com/nyc-esq/hey-donut