On the edge speech recognition on Intel nuc8i5beh with GNA plugin

[Datta__Chandan]

Hi team

We are trying to mount a NuC on a mobile robot platform and trying to build far field speech recognition and DoA capabilities into the robot?

• Does anyone know if the GNA support is available on the Intel nuc8i5beh platform while using OpenVino for offline ASR applications ? 
• Does the OpenVino plugin have implementations as per the description in Michael Deisher's papers:
  • https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5378/a660410838816067bba0643349c811d96b72.pdf
  • https://sigport.org/sites/default/files/docs/PosterFinal.pdf

Output from a NUC we have onboard:

lshw -short
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
H/W path       Device           Class          Description
==========================================================
                                system         Computer
/0                              bus            Motherboard
/0/0                            memory         7835MiB System memory
/0/1                            processor      Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8259U CPU @ 2.30GHz
/0/100                          bridge         8th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers
/0/100/2                        display        Intel Corporation
/0/100/8                        generic        Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model
/0/100/12                       generic        Intel Corporation
/0/100/14                       bus            Intel Corporation
/0/100/14.2                     memory         RAM memory
/0/100/14.3    wlp0s20f3        network        Intel Corporation
/0/100/16                       communication  Intel Corporation
/0/100/17                       storage        Intel Corporation
/0/100/1c                       bridge         Intel Corporation
/0/100/1c.4                     bridge         Intel Corporation
/0/100/1d                       bridge         Intel Corporation
/0/100/1d.6                     bridge         Intel Corporation
/0/100/1d.6/0                   generic        RTS522A PCI Express Card Reader
/0/100/1f                       bridge         Intel Corporation
/0/100/1f.3                     multimedia     Intel Corporation
/0/100/1f.4                     bus            Intel Corporation
/0/100/1f.5                     bus            Intel Corporation
/0/100/1f.6    eno1             network        Ethernet Connection (6) I219-V
/1             enx74da389fbd60  network        Ethernet interface

[nikos1]

Hi Datta, Chandan,

I think Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8259U may not have GNA.

 https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/135935/intel-core-i5-8259u-processor-6m-cache-up-to-3-80-ghz.html

seems to be Coffee Lake ?

Based on https://docs.openvinotoolkit.org/latest/_docs_IE_DG_supported_plugins_GNA.html maybe you need Gemini / Cannon / Ice Lake but not Coffee Lake but I may be wrong... what was your finding?

Cheers,

nikos