Low power audio transcription with Whisper

This is an idea proposed in 2025 as a good starter project, and is currently being worked on by Dan Kvit. It is co-supervised with Josh Millar.

The rise of batteryless energy-harvesting platforms could enable ultra-low-power, long-term, maintenance-free deployments of sensors.

This project explores the deployment of the OpenAI Whisper audio transcription model onto embedded devices, initially starting with the rPi and moving onto smaller devices.