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Depends on the company. Apple uses a very specific type of chip for the wake word that cannot change the wake word. Alexa is able to change the sound wake word to almost anything, iirc.
That might be true, I honestly don't know. But it doesn't matter to the point I'm making, which is that however the device does it, it's the device, locally, that determines whether a wake word has been said, before it starts transmitting what comes next.