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This only works with Intel GPUs, and CPUs and NPUs. No Nvidia support for instance.

https://docs.openvino.ai/2024/about-openvino/release-notes-o...

I used to work at Intel doing OpenVINO stuff. Should work on AMD too; it's just not validated for it so there might be quirks.

They have some NVIDIA support in the form of external project: https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino_contrib/tree/mas...

Nvidia has Broadcast which is Windows-only:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/broadcasting/broadcast-...

Doesn't work on files so can't be used in Audacity, only on live mic audio.

Fair point! I don't suppose Windows allows pulse audio style routing of audio streams to use denoising on a fake microphone.

I ran it on my amd 5950x with an rtx3090. It crashed when I attempted GPU process but ran fine on CPU. YMMV

So use your cpu

A lot of us have ryzen / nvidia combos... hopefully, soon, though.

Openvino runs fine on AMD last I checked

Maybe it does, however the system requirements page makes it looks like it supports everything BUT AMD.

https://docs.openvino.ai/2024/about-openvino/release-notes-o...

It supports AMD cpus because, if I understand correctly, AMD licenses x86 from Intel, so it shares the same bits needed to run openVINO as Intel’s cpus.

Go look at CPUs benchmarks on Phoronix; AMD Ryzen cpus regularly trounce Intel cpus using openVINO inference.

Or use the underlying open-source models directly; this is just several existing open models packaged by an Intel-specific deployment framework and wrapped as Audacity plugins.

This is a great suggestion and all, but don’t you need a frontend/pipeline to run data through these models?

There are existing frontends for these models that aren't tied to Intel hardware. It may be somewhat less convenient than having them packaged as audacity plugins, but they certainly exist, for people who would want to use them but do not want to be limited to Intel hardware.

It might also work with AMD CPUs too

I've used this plugin on an AMD CPU, it definitely works.

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