Can buzz working in NPU?

[terry50203]

I just got a new laptop with an Intel Core Ultra 5 115U.
I noticed it has an NPU, which is supposedly designed for AI tasks.
Does Buzz support NPU acceleration?

[raivisdejus]

@terry50203 You would need to check if the speech recognition libraries used by Buzz support NPUs.
I imagine the Huggingface recognition type has the highest chance of supporting NPUs as it is based on popular libraries used for many different tasks. Test the latest development version it has up to date versions of speech recognition libraries :)

If the current version does not support NPUs, there is high chance one of next versions will support them.

The whisper.cpp recognition engine uses Vulkan GPU acceleration and support even built in integrated GPUs, so there is high chance that this option will be able to run even the large models in a real time speed.