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Feature Request: Add SenseVoice for on-device voice recognition #61

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@LauraGPT

Feature Request

Owl is a great personal wearable AI that runs locally. Suggesting SenseVoice as an ASR option — its compact size and speed make it ideal for local/edge deployment.

Why SenseVoice for wearable AI?

  • 234M params — compact enough for local inference on consumer hardware
  • Non-autoregressive — constant low latency (~100ms), no waiting for sequential decoding
  • 5x faster than Whisper — better battery life and responsiveness
  • 50+ languages — single model handles any language
  • Emotion detection — contextual awareness of speaker mood
  • Audio events — detects environmental sounds (laughter, music, etc.)

Local deployment options

  1. Python (simplest): pip install funasr
  2. ONNX (optimized): via Sherpa-ONNX — supports ARM, x86, mobile
  3. C++ (embedded): SenseVoice.cpp — no Python dependency

Quick start

from funasr import AutoModel
model = AutoModel(model="iic/SenseVoiceSmall", vad_model="fsmn-vad")
result = model.generate(input=audio)

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