thalovant/guezilo-wakeword (superseded)

The wake word "Guézilo", said gué-zi-lo /ɡe.zi.lo/ (the "u" is silent). It was replaced by Zoguilo and is kept for comparison.

It is a 0.9 MB wakeforge ONNX head on the streamed features of TigreGotico/wakehubert-tiny (int8), for OVOS through ovos-ww-plugin-wakeforge:

"hotwords": {"guezilo": {"module": "ovos-ww-plugin-wakeforge", "listen": true,
  "model": "https://huggingface.co/thalovant/guezilo-wakeword/resolve/main/guezilo.onnx"}}

Why it was dropped: spoken by TTS, it came close to 121 of 1,768 common short phrases in 7 languages, such as Spanish "es lo" and French "je le". Zoguilo came close to 62. It also wakes more often on French speech.

Held out, at its default threshold 0.512 (set on development speech for 0.5 false wakes/h). False wakes are on 70.4 h of unseen speakers; recall counts only clips that a phoneme model confirms say the word:

	false wakes/h (all / French)	held-out TTS voices, after silence / after speech	OmniVoice speakers	voice-converted real speakers	near misses accepted
Guézilo	0.61 / 1.09	93 % / 89 %	98 % / 94 %	94 % / 90 %	0.3 % of 328
Zoguilo	0.64 / 0.80	93 % / 93 %	96 % / 96 %	97 % / 95 %	0 of 284

Its weakest language is Portuguese: 1.6 false wakes/h, and 44–56 % on the one held-out pt-BR voice. Training data and method are the same as Zoguilo's. Raw reports: eval.json, plugin_validation.json.

License

CC BY-NC 4.0: free for non-commercial use with attribution ("Guézilo wake word by Thalovant"); commercial use requires permission from Thalovant. The WakeHuBERT featurizer it runs on is Apache-2.0 and licensed separately. Versions downloaded before 2026-11-05 were published under Apache-2.0.