ViolaWake Blog

Technical notes on wake word training, open-source voice activation, deployment, and comparison research.

How We Trained a Wake Word at 0.8% EER with 25K Parameters

A technical deep dive into ViolaWake's TemporalCNN wake word architecture, OpenWakeWord embeddings, confusable negatives, and evaluation metrics.

Published 2026-05-08.

Open Source vs Proprietary Wake Word Detection: 2026 Landscape

A 2026 survey of Picovoice, OpenWakeWord, Snowboy, Google KWS research, and ViolaWake for custom wake word detection.

Published 2026-05-08.

Build a Raspberry Pi Voice Assistant in 30 Minutes with ViolaWake

A practical Raspberry Pi wake word tutorial using ViolaWake, a USB microphone, local ONNX inference, and a simple Python command loop.

Published 2026-05-08.