Matching audio against previous recording in real time
You can use 1uA IDD opamps to implement bandpass and lowpass/highpass filters.
But you'll need several, perhaps 10. And even with MegOhm resistors, you are running 10uA or 20uA.

Or you can digitize, and constantly perform correlations or, more selectively, FFTs on every 1/20 second time slice. However, you first need to have a Wakeup Signal. Thus lowpower opamps/bandpass filters.

To detect human voices, use 1KHz filters, or 100uSec timeconstants. Given 10pF node capacitances in bipolar transistors (ignoring Miller Effect), we can have 10MegaOhm resistors and thus 100nanoAmp gain stages, executed in bipolar. 

The maximum gain of a bipolar stage (resistive load) is Vdd/0.026, hence the most you can get from one stage with 3v battery is 3/0.026 or about 120X.
A couple stages gives over 80dB gain, with bandwidth of 1KHz. Then you need a level detector (comparator). And you need biasing for all this.

Sounds like 500nanoAmperes is possible, bandwidth of 1KHz.

All this does is wakeup the MCU, upon occurrence of strong voice fundamental energy.

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View the human voice as selective filters that control output tones from the energy of impulse generators (the vocal cords). As the throat/mouth/nose tune up, the output tones will have a rising amplitude with perhaps a changing frequency (or 2, or 3). But....fundamentally, the vocal energy starts up from ZERO amplitude and exhibits a quickly rising amplitude. That.....the ramp up of amplitude....is our key. Of course, a clamp of thunder, or a car passing may also exhibit this rising amplitude; the digital correlation examines that.

We thus need to reliably consume very low power, and provide a low-pass filter for male/female  fundamental voice tones (up to 1Khz), detecting the amplitude on a cycle-by-cycle basis (a half-wave rectifier with quick rampup ability) and when 10milliSeconds (only 1 cycle of a male voice at 100Hz) or perhaps 50 milliSeconds or rising amplitudes are detected, then the Interrupt be generated.

Here is our block diagram:







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Here is link to a book on current-mode signal processing: