How to set up wake word for Google Assistant SDK on a Raspberry Pi

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ProZsolt picture ProZsolt · Apr 28, 2017 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

Documentation of the Google Assistant SDK says that you need to hit enter to talk to the assistant. Is there a native way to set up a wake word?

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Richard Vowles picture Richard Vowles · May 2, 2017

Also consider using Snowboy - https://snowboy.kitt.ai/ - it supports Python and a variety of other languages, runs on Mac/Linux (including Pi) and supports multiple hotword detection. And its free for non-commercial use.

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