No Alexa, No Google: Custom Hotword Detection Arduino

Are you interested in calling your Arduino board with its own name? All you need is:

• Arduino IDE (free)
• Arduino Nano 33 BLE
• Picovoice Console Account (free)

1. Train a custom hotword

• Sign up for [Picovoice Console] for free (https://console.picovoice.ai/)
• Go to the Porcupine Page
• Select the language for your model

• Type in the phrase, i.e. name you'd like to give and click on the train.
  [PS: You can read our tips for selecting a hotword.]

• Pick Arm Cortex-M as the platform and Arduino Nano 33 BLE as the board type.

• Paste your board UUID.

• Open Arduino IDE

• Download Porcupine_EN library

• Run the GetUUID example from Porcupine_EN.

• Check the Serial Monitor

• Copy the UUID and paste it on Picovoice Console.

• Click on Download.
  Congrats! You trained your hotword!

Embed the Hotword

• Open the file pv_porcupine_params.h with a text editor. The KEYWORD_ARRAY[] contains your newly-trained model!
• Run the PorcupineExample from the Porcupine_EN library.
• Replace KEYWORD_ARRAY in the params.h with yours.
• Copy your AccessKey from Picovoice Console
• Add your AccessKey in PorcupineExample.ino. Don't forget to wrap it in " and terminate the line with ;!
• Upload and run the example

Voila!

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