“Hee-neck” wake word model

Open-source openWakeWord model for the wake word “Hee-neck”, trained on openwakeword.com from synthetic speech (English (US)). It runs fully on-device with the openWakeWord runtime: Home Assistant (openWakeWord add-on), Rhasspy, OpenVoiceOS and any Python project.

Model facts

Wake word: “Hee-neck”
Language of the training voices: English (US)
Trained: 2026-09-03 · pipeline V4
Network: 64 × 3 layers, 80,000 training steps
Recall, clean speech: 41.0%
Recall, with background noise and room reverb: 24.0%
False activations on the benchmark set: 0.31 per hour at threshold 0.5
Files: ONNX (405 KB), TFLite (412 KB)
Downloads: 1

Recall is measured on 500 synthetic test utterances; false activations on about 10 hours of near-miss phrases, noise and read speech, one activation per frame at or above the threshold with a 2-second refractory period.

Download

Sign in on this page to download the model as ONNX (405 KB) or TFLite (412 KB). Downloads are free; models are licensed for personal and non-commercial use by default (commercial license).

Use it in Home Assistant

Download the TFLite file and copy it to the /share/openwakeword folder of your Home Assistant server.
Install the openWakeWord add-on and restart it so it picks up the new file.
In Settings → Voice assistants, open your assistant and choose “Hee-neck” as the wake word.
Say “Hee-neck” to your satellite or to the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition.

Use it in Python

from openwakeword.model import Model

model = Model(wakeword_models=["Hee-neck_20260903_153324.onnx"], inference_framework="onnx")
# feed 16 kHz mono int16 audio in 1280-sample frames; a score above the threshold is an activation
scores = model.predict(frame)

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“Hey Jarvis” — 83.6% recall
“hey bro” — 81.4% recall

Custom wake words are trained in the Training Center; the library lists every public model with the same measurements.