BACKGROUND

The use of automatic personal assistants has grown significantly. A personal assistant is an application or service that retrieves information, executes a task, or initiates execution of a task on behalf of a user. Users can communicate with such personal digital assistants using a conversational interface, such as a microphone and speaker.

SUMMARY

The following presents a shortened summary of various aspects of this disclosure in order to provide a basic understanding of such aspects. This summary is not an extensive overview of all contemplated aspects and is intended to neither identify key or critical elements nor delineate the scope of such aspects. A purpose of this summary is to present some concepts of this disclosure in a compact form as a prelude to a more detailed description that is presented later.

In one aspect of the present disclosure, systems and methods are disclosed for assisting a user of a personal assistant or product developer in choosing a custom wake word. In one instance, a method for wake word selection assistance can include receiving, at a device, data indicating a custom wake word provided by a user, determining one or more characteristics of the custom wake word. The method can include determining whether the custom wake word will cause more than a threshold rate of false detections based on the characteristics. The method can include rejecting the custom wake word as the wake word (e.g., refraining from setting the wake word equal to the custom wake word, prompting the user for a different custom wake word, indicating that the custom wake word is not a good choice for a wake word, a combination thereof, or the like) in response to determining the provided word will cause more than a threshold rate of false detections, and allowing the user to use the word as the wake word in response to determining the provided word will not cause more than the threshold rate of false detections.

