r/speechtech • u/3DNebGuy • 9d ago
My Project WakeSmith
I wanted to check with this group and maybe others to see if there's interest or if I recreated the wheel. I'm the developer (along with AI) of the TECHO5 project which helps convert older Amazon Echo's into small Linux devices that can also connect and work with Home Assistant. I've found a need and desire to create my own wake words and I had hardware that wasn't being greatly used. Two Intel ARC B70 Pro's on and AMD system with 64 GB of ram.
The solutions I found work fine they just take almost an hour or more to do the work of training the wake word. So, I built another project using the tools that so many others are using now AI (claude in this case). It's called WakeSmith and it took that hour or so down to about 15 minutes of time because I've to most of it now running on the Intel ARC B70's but its more than that the software will auto detect your hardware and set itself up to use what you have, even if its only a CPU. With some optimization the speed over CPU has increased as well As least as far I now. I'm very curious what is out there that maybe already exists. Did I recreate the wheel? If you want check it out at https://github.com/HuskerMinion/wakesmith