For context: Voice Satellite is an open-source Home Assistant integration that turns any browser-capable tablet into a full Assist voice satellite, with on-device wake word detection, a configurable overlay UI, screensaver, media player support, and a sidebar config panel. This post is aimed at existing Voice Satellite users who already have it running on their wall-mounted tablets. Version 8.0.0 just shipped vsWakeWord, a brand new, custom built on-device wake-word engine I created specifically for what Voice Satellite actually is: a browser on a wall-mounted tablet capturing off-axis speech with household background noise. The headline numbers from cross-engine benchmarks on ok_nabu: Metric vsWakeWord microWakeWord openWakeWord Recall 100% 59% 50% False positive rate 0% 3.3% 0% vsWakeWord is the only engine to clear both 100% recall AND 0% false positives on the test set.…