tflite-runtime now considered harmful

[sixtyfive]

Hi, unfortunately it seems that tflite-runtime must be considered deprecated as it's not being updated anymore and depends on Python 3.11 only. A lot of distros have now moved on to 3.12, Arch being on 3.13 already. Might onnxruntime be a medium-term alternative perhaps (since tflite models can be converted to ONNX format)?

[TotalSpaceshipguy]

It looks like tflite-runtime is being split out from tensorflow, and has been replaced by ai-edge-litert
tensorflow/tensorflow#62003

I managed to get script/setup to run by editing requirements.txt and changing
tflite-runtime to
ai-edge-litert-nightly

I then managed to get script/run to execute by editing wyoming_openwakeword/openwakeword.py and changing
try:
import tflite_runtime.interpreter as tflite
to
try:
import ai_edge_litert.interpreter as tflite

I haven't tested any further than that though

[lubosz]

The original openWakeWord library does support onnxruntime. tflight is just a hard dependency on wyoming-openwakeword.

See: https://github.com/dscripka/openWakeWord?tab=readme-ov-file#installation

[lubosz]

@TotalSpaceshipguy It seems that the litert is still stuck on Python 3.12, see:
https://pypi.org/project/ai-edge-litert-nightly/1.0.1.dev20250126/#files