mycroft-face-wake | Trigger Mycroft without the use of a wake word

mycroft-face-wake is a Python library typically used in Internet of Things (IoT), Raspberry Pi applications. mycroft-face-wake has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has build file available, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

This is a working prototype. It offers no configuration, must be run on the same host as mycroft-core, and all STT is handled by Google's API (via the SpeechRecognition library). It does not replace the wake-word functionality - they can both used at the same time. I feel that this may offer a more natural way to interact with a voice assistant. Wake words are great, but often when I talk to people, I just make eye-contact and begin talking. This emulates that type of interaction (though again, it does not replace the wake-word functionality). ~~This runs quite nicely on my desktop and laptop, but a Raspberry Pi is not quite powerful enough to handle it effectively (in my brief test, it took roughly 4 seconds to detect a face on the Pi, where it happens virtually instantanesouly on a desktop/laptop). Note that there is also some extra work to get this running on a Pi - it will not work as-is. I may add support at a later date, however, given the performance, it is not a priority.~~.