There are some absolutely useful things you can do with TTS/STT/Diarization/etc on even really minimal specs.
Some of those will run fine on RPis even without this new hat.
The extra ram probably opens the door to a large number of vision/image models, which typically want a minimum of 16Gb, but do better with 24/32.
There are just a HUGE number of case specific models that do just fine on hardware at the RPi level, assuming you have the ram to load them.
There are some absolutely useful things you can do with TTS/STT/Diarization/etc on even really minimal specs.
Some of those will run fine on RPis even without this new hat.
The extra ram probably opens the door to a large number of vision/image models, which typically want a minimum of 16Gb, but do better with 24/32.
There are just a HUGE number of case specific models that do just fine on hardware at the RPi level, assuming you have the ram to load them.