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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# verify_oww_models.sh — sanity-check all wake models
+set -euo pipefail
+
+cd /home/pi/wyoming-openwakeword
+MODELDIR="wyoming_openwakeword/models"   # adjust if needed
+
+GOOD=()
+BAD=()
+
+for f in "$MODELDIR"/*.tflite; do
+  base="$(basename "$f" .tflite)"
+  case "$base" in
+    embedding_model|melspectrogram) continue ;;  # support files, not wake words
+  esac
+
+  printf "Testing %-20s ... " "$base"
+  # Bind to a dummy port and kill after 6s; success == loaded without immediate error
+  if timeout 6s ./script/run --uri tcp://127.0.0.1:0 --preload-model "$base" --debug \
+       >/tmp/oww_test.log 2>&1 ; then
+    echo "ok"
+    GOOD+=("$base")
+  else
+    rc=$?
+    if [ $rc -eq 124 ]; then
+      echo "ok (timeout after load)"
+      GOOD+=("$base")
+    else
+      echo "FAIL (rc=$rc)"
+      BAD+=("$base")
+      sed 's/^/  /' /tmp/oww_test.log | tail -n 10
+    fi
+  fi
+done
+
+echo
+echo "Good models (${#GOOD[@]}): ${GOOD[*]}"
+echo "Bad models  (${#BAD[@]}): ${BAD[*]-<none>}"
+