faster-enhancer.c: A Dependency-Free int8 Runtime for Streaming Speech Enhancement on Commodity CPUs
This is an implementation and measurement study of what it costs to run a streaming speech enhancer on a CPU. We port FastEnhancer-Medium at 48 kHz to faster-enhancer.c, a C runtime with six int8 GEMM tiers selected at initialization, leaving architecture and weights untouched. One Apple M2 core reaches 0.069 real-time...