diff --git a/cmd/mavwaked/wakeword.go b/cmd/mavwaked/wakeword.go
index 5f83902..f97e3ee 100644
--- a/cmd/mavwaked/wakeword.go
+++ b/cmd/mavwaked/wakeword.go
@@ -21,11 +21,15 @@ import (
 	"sync"
 )
 
-// defaultWakeThreshold — score above which the keyword was said. Picked from
-// the false-accept rate on held-out Russian speech, not from accuracy: a miss
-// costs him a repeat, a false accept costs a turn nobody asked for. See
-// docs/evals for the wakes-per-hour this buys.
-const defaultWakeThreshold = 0.99
+// defaultWakeThreshold — score above which the keyword was said.
+//
+// Picked from the false-accept rate on held-out Russian speech, not from
+// accuracy: a miss costs him a repeat, a false accept costs a turn nobody
+// asked for. Over 65 minutes of Common Voice, 0.99 woke her three times and
+// 0.999 once, and the difference in recall was one render out of 126. So the
+// default is the strict one. `docs/evals/2026-08-09-wake-word.md` has both
+// tables.
+const defaultWakeThreshold = 0.999
 
 // wakeWord is the streaming state around wakeModels. It is fed the same
 // capture frames the VAD sees and answers whether the keyword has just been