Intel GNA Linux Driver Updated For Accelerating Speech Recognition, Noise Reduction

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel GNA Linux Driver Updated For Accelerating Speech Recognition, Noise Reduction

While Intel is well known and loved for their generally very timely open-source hardware enablement under Linux, occasionally there are exceptions to that long-standing tradition of having the support squared away ahead of product launches. One of the areas where Intel has been slow at enabling their open-source Linux support is around their Gaussian and Neural Accelerator (GNA) but that driver is now coming together for being mainlined hopefully in the near future...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-GNA-Linux-Driver-v2

[lowflyer]

I'm eagerly awaiting this patch. The noise in the datacenter is deafening.

[Guest]

Ooh, nice! Would be nice to use this for something like the Mycroft voice assistant. And even for real time noise reduction in audio calls/recordings if possible.