[sdiy] ML / AI for music & synthesis (not coding!)

[Eric Brombaugh]

A more interesting topic to me is the use of machine learning and AI 
methods for realtime synthesis / effects and music creation. More and 
more often these days I'm seeing IoT / edge computing hardware that has 
neural processing accelerators built in. Often these are in quite 
inexpensive parts - SoCs targeted at networked cameras w/ machine vision 
features, MCUs with audio processing for "wake up word" recongnition, 
etc. So the question is how can these resources be turned to interesting 
synthesis applications. Often these accelerators are merely fast linear 
algebra coprocessors that do fast dot products so that would easily 
apply to filtering and convolution, but often they're limited to 8-bit 
data so unless you're doing chiptunes stuff that's not so useful. Any 
other cool ways to apply them?