Today at Home Assistant we announced the release of microWakeWord. It is a new wake word model that is fully open source and runs on the ESP32 S3 microcontroller. It is integrated into ESPHome and now powers the latest generation of Home Assistant's privacy focused voice assistant.<p>Overview of Home Assistant's voice work: <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/can-you-manage-your-house-with-a-local-no-cloud-voice-assistant-mostly-yes/" rel="nofollow">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/can-you-manage-your-...</a><p>More information about todays release: <a href="https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/02/21/voice-chapter-6/" rel="nofollow">https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/02/21/voice-chapter-...</a><p>Create your own voice assistant directly from your browser: <a href="https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/s3_box_voice_assistant/" rel="nofollow">https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/s3_box_voice_ass...</a><p>Video of it in action compared to streaming the audio to Home Assistant where it is passed to openWakeWord: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSKBWtBJyDE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSKBWtBJyDE</a>