Google Coral for Whisper and Piper?

[AseKarlsson]

Hi,
Can a Google Coral help Whisper and PIper on a local voice scenario?

Is the PoE version of HA Yellow powerful enough to handle the Coral?
Can I damage the Yellow if i overload the USB port or does it just cut of the USB power?
Can the USB-C port on the Yellow be used as a normal USB port?

Thanks,
Ase

[tmjpugh]

@AseKarlsson

Can I damage the Yellow if i overload the USB port or does it just cut of the USB power?

It is regulated supply. Only outputs what it can output.

@AseKarlsson

Can the USB-C port on the Yellow be used as a normal USB port?

USB is standardized across all the connector types. Differences are power output, speed and feature support with C being backward compatible to all. There are usb c to usb A adapters and so on. If you can find adapter you can use it for the device.

@AseKarlsson

Is the PoE version of HA Yellow powerful enough to handle the Coral?

Yes. POE voltage is like 48VDC so the device should be equal to unit running off a power brick.

@AseKarlsson

Can a Google Coral help Whisper and PIper on a local voice scenario?

Roadmap for Piper & Whisper using Coral Edge TPU or similar

I would like to know if there is any plans in the works to offload speech and recognition processing to an Edge TPU like Coral. If so, I would like to know the rough timeline. This would increase speed of recognition & speech generation, while lowering CPU demand. Thanks!

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[AseKarlsson]

Thanks @tmjpugh for your replies! much appriciated!
This very much said that Coral is not supported with Whisper or Piper

To the USB-C port as a standard USB port I need to change the USB-C mode from UART(default) to USB mode?