Switching the pi4 to precise

My pi4 has been built from scratch not using picroft, but built on raspberrian, and it’s working fine, but now I want to switch it to precise, pocket sphinx is just a little to annoying. Now at the moment I don’t have huge amounts of time to train a custom wake word, I was wondering if there where any other wake words that have been already provided enough training to be reliable I know the four that are on the device setup, but as my pi4 has a female voice the “hey Ezra” is not appealing, even something simple like “Computer” would be fine till I can devote enough time to the training exercise. Any hey would be appriciated

you can find community models here, you are encouraged to submit more samples and someone will train a model for you :slight_smile:

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thank you I new there must have been something, but the little grey cells don’t always works so good :roll_eyes:

OK took everyone’s great suggestions, figured my way through most of it to the point of testing so I have been playing around with the trigger and threshold values and well I didn’t want it triggering all the time but I would like it to trigger when its wake word is given. But I did notice one thing from the logs that I don’t know if it a problem or not:

2021-06-18 23:05:07.174 | INFO | 26209 | mycroft.client.speech.listener:create_wakeup_recognizer:365 | creating stand up word engine
2021-06-18 23:05:07.175 | INFO | 26209 | mycroft.client.speech.hotword_factory:load_module:467 | Loading “wake up” wake word via pocketsphinx
2021-06-18 23:16:29.966 | WARNING | 26209 | mycroft.client.speech.listener:run:88 | Audio contains no data.
2021-06-18 23:16:29.970 | INFO | 26209 | mycroft.client.speech.listener:create_wake_word_recognizer:328 | Creating wake word engine
2021-06-18 23:16:29.971 | INFO | 26209 | mycroft.client.speech.listener:create_wake_word_recognizer:351 | Using hotword entry for athena
2021-06-18 23:16:29.972 | WARNING | 26209 | mycroft.client.speech.listener:create_wake_word_recognizer:357 | Threshold is missing falling back to listeners configuration
2021-06-18 23:16:29.973 | INFO | 26209 | mycroft.client.speech.hotword_factory:load_module:467 | Loading “athena” wake word via precise
Warning: Failed to load parameters from /home/vstubbs/.mycroft/precise/athena.pb.params
2021-06-18 23:16:30.900 | INFO | 26209 | mycroft.client.speech.listener:create_wakeup_recognizer:365 | creating stand up word engine
2021-06-18 23:16:30.900 | INFO | 26209 | mycroft.client.speech.hotword_factory:load_module:467 | Loading “wake up” wake word via pocketsphinx

it’s the Warning: Failed to load parameters from /home/vstubbs/.mycroft/precise/athena.pb.params I took all three files from the archive and placed it into the directory with the .pb and .pb txt:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 vstubbs users 42 Jun 18 19:43 athena → /mnt/volume2/Precise-Community-Data/athena
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vstubbs users 26635 Nov 13 2018 athena.pb
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vstubbs users 169 Nov 13 2018 athena.pb.params
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vstubbs users 478108 Nov 13 2018 athena.pbtxt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 vstubbs users 44 Jun 18 19:43 computer → /mnt/volume2/Precise-Community-Data/computer
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vstubbs users 26635 Aug 15 2019 computer-en.pb
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vstubbs users 169 Aug 15 2019 computer-en.pb.params
-rw-rw-r-- 1 vstubbs users 478245 Aug 15 2019 computer-en.pbtxt
-rw-r–r-- 1 vstubbs users 16615 Jun 18 20:00 framefile-1024.dat
-rw-r–r-- 1 vstubbs users 1081 Jun 18 20:00 framegraph-1024.gnu
lrwxrwxrwx 1 vstubbs users 44 Jun 18 19:44 licenses → /mnt/volume2/Precise-Community-Data/licenses
lrwxrwxrwx 1 vstubbs users 50 Jun 18 19:43 not-wake-words → /mnt/volume2/Precise-Community-Data/not-wake-words
drwxrwxr-x 1 vstubbs users 5652 Jun 22 2018 precise-engine
-rw-r–r-- 1 vstubbs users 57853556 Mar 13 19:16 precise-engine_0.2.0_x86_64.tar.gz

Just to make sure the problem was not the pi4, I tried the configuration on my main linux server where I have mycroft installed where there is lots of memory and working audio systems and thad the same results and just to be complete here is the user mycroft config:

{
“max_allowed_core_version”: 21.2,
“listener”: {
“wake_word”: “athena”
},
“hotwords”: {
“athena”: {
“module”: “precise”,
“phonemes”: “AE TH IY N AH”,
“local_model_file”: “/home/vstubbs/.mycroft/precise/athena.pb”,
“sensitivity”: 0.5,
“trigger_level”: 5
}
},
“tts”: {
“mimic”: {
“path”: “/usr/bin/mimic”
}
},
“SkillInstallerSkill”: {
“path”: “/usr/bin/msm”
}
}

The warning can be ignored.

I keep getting “precise is taking too long to load”.

any idea what is wrong?