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Exciting news for who? Only the site owner is excited that a free resource now requires a subscription
“Yay! Now I have to pay another subscription! I’m so excited! Let’s celebrate with them!” - nobody
Could probably do it with something like a Google coral. You can get one for $60 these days. A lot cheaper than a GPU and less power hungry too.
I think they’re $25ish from an official supplier. $60 is scalper pricing. Don’t pay a scalper as it just encourages them to do it more.
$25 for the m.2 version at least. It’s $60 for the usb version which I assume most people would prefer.
Ah, I didn’t realise the USB one cost that much more. I’m not sure most people would prefer the USB version though. It’s convenient to move around and you can use it with mini PCs, but cooling isn’t as good compared to something that sits in a case with good airflow (so it’s more likely to thermally throttle while in use), and having dedicated PCIe lanes as you’d get with an M.2 is way more efficient than using a shared bus like USB. Google have always advertised the USB version for “prototyping” while the M.2 versions are for “production”.
For $40, you can get an M.2 version that has two Coral TPUs on a single board. https://coral.ai/products/m2-accelerator-dual-edgetpu. I’ve got this one with a PCIe adapter, but currently only use one of the TPUs.
That’s still another thing that needs to be bought, installed, and fed with power.
My low power would likely melt trying to run Whisper.
A USB coral uses barely any power and if you have a hard time installing USB devices…
Besides, a lot of people are already using them for frigate. I am.
I was only aware of the m.2 variants.
Still, it’s a thing to be bought which I have not had to do for years for my media solution.