I finally put my NPU (Intel Arrow Lake) to use doing ASR for my smart home

In three linesUser optimized ASR (automatic speech recognition) on Intel Arrow Lake NPU via OpenVINO. Results: 4.8× faster and 10.7× less energy than CPU INT8 on 10s audio. NPU (13 TOPS) frees CPU and VRAM for other ML tasks, outperforming RTX 3060 eGPU in latency.

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