Ascend NPU (昇腾 NPU)

This section describes how to use sherpa-onnx with Ascend NPU from Huawei.

The following NPUs are known to work:

• 910B

• 910B2

• 310P3

Other types of Ascend NPU may also work.

• Install
  • Install CANN
  • Build sherpa-onnx
• Export models to Ascend NPU
  • Export SenseVoice
  • Export Paraformer
• Pre-trained models
  • sherpa-onnx-ascend-910B-cann-8.0-sense-voice-zh-en-ja-ko-yue-2024-07-17 (Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Cantonese, 中英日韩粤语)
    • Decode long files with a VAD
    • Decode a short file
  • sherpa-onnx-ascend-910B-cann-8.0-sense-voice-zh-en-ja-ko-yue-2025-09-09 (Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Cantonese, 中英日韩粤语)
  • sherpa-onnx-ascend-910B-cann-8.0-paraformer-zh-2023-03-28 (Chinese + English)
    • Decode long files with a VAD
    • Decode a short file
  • sherpa-onnx-ascend-910B2-cann-8.0-paraformer-zh-2025-10-07 (四川话、重庆话、川渝方言)
  • sherpa-onnx-ascend-910B-cann-7.0-5-seconds-zipformer-ctc-zh-2025-07-03 (中文)
    • Decode a short file