How To Create CUSTOM WAKE Word For Your Voice Assistant In Home Assistant | Snowboy

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

In this video we will look at how we can create a custom wake word and then use the custom wake word with your voice assistant to invoke Home Assistant.

Full Article : https://smarthomecircle.com/custom-wake-word-for-voice-assistant-with-home-assistant

Setup Voice Assist Pipeline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4V2JqCmk7M

Setup Voice Assistant With ESP32 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-o4xpyHj7M

Share/Transfer Files with Home Assistant : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAkU-Q6YAsk

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00:00 - Introduction
00:47 - Setup Assist Pipeline with Whisper and Piper
01:54 - Setup ESP32 Voice Assistant
02:49 - Setup SnowBoy Wake Word Detector
04:00 - Update Voice Assist Pipeline with SnowBoy
04:33 - Testing SnowBoy Wake word
05:00 - Generating Custom Wake Word
07:00 - Generating Custom Wake Word Model
07:27 - Copying Custom Wake Word Model to Home Assistant
09:10 - Updating Voice Assist Pipeline with Custom Wake Word
09:34 - Testing Custom Wake word
10:10 - Running SnowBoy As Docker Container
12:40 - Testing Custom Wake Word With SnowBoy Container
12:57 - Entire Setup Details
13:18 - What's coming Up Next?



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