chore: update version to 3.3.3 in pyproject.toml and uv.lock

"lv": "latvian"

.github/workflows/build-and-release.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+name: Build and release
+
+on:
+  release:
+    types: [published]
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Install uv
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v5
+        with:
+          version: "0.5.14"
+          python-version: "3.9"
+
+      - name: Build package
+        run: uv build
+
+      - name: Release to Github
+        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
+        with:
+          files: dist/*.whl
+
+      - name: Publish package to PyPi
+        run: uv publish
+        env:
+          UV_PUBLISH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PYPI_API_TOKEN }}

.github/workflows/python-compatibility.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+name: Python Compatibility Test
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main]
+  workflow_dispatch: # Allows manual triggering from GitHub UI
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Install uv
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v5
+        with:
+          version: "0.5.14"
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+      - name: Install the project
+        run: uv sync --all-extras
+
+      - name: Test import
+        run: |
+          uv run python -c "import whisperx; print('Successfully imported whisperx')"

.gitignore

@@ -1,3 +1,171 @@
-whisperx.egg-info/
+# Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
-**/__pycache__/
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+*$py.class
+
+# C extensions
+*.so
+
+# Distribution / packaging
+.Python
+build/
+develop-eggs/
+dist/
+downloads/
+eggs/
+.eggs/
+lib/
+lib64/
+parts/
+sdist/
+var/
+wheels/
+share/python-wheels/
+*.egg-info/
+.installed.cfg
+*.egg
+MANIFEST
+
+# PyInstaller
+#  Usually these files are written by a python script from a template
+#  before PyInstaller builds the exe, so as to inject date/other infos into it.
+*.manifest
+*.spec
+
+# Installer logs
+pip-log.txt
+pip-delete-this-directory.txt
+
+# Unit test / coverage reports
+htmlcov/
+.tox/
+.nox/
+.coverage
+.coverage.*
+.cache
+nosetests.xml
+coverage.xml
+*.cover
+*.py,cover
+.hypothesis/
+.pytest_cache/
+cover/
+
+# Translations
+*.mo
+*.pot
+
+# Django stuff:
+*.log
+local_settings.py
+db.sqlite3
+db.sqlite3-journal
+
+# Flask stuff:
+instance/
+.webassets-cache
+
+# Scrapy stuff:
+.scrapy
+
+# Sphinx documentation
+docs/_build/
+
+# PyBuilder
+.pybuilder/
+target/
+
+# Jupyter Notebook
 .ipynb_checkpoints
+
+# IPython
+profile_default/
+ipython_config.py
+
+# pyenv
+#   For a library or package, you might want to ignore these files since the code is
+#   intended to run in multiple environments; otherwise, check them in:
+# .python-version
+
+# pipenv
+#   According to pypa/pipenv#598, it is recommended to include Pipfile.lock in version control.
+#   However, in case of collaboration, if having platform-specific dependencies or dependencies
+#   having no cross-platform support, pipenv may install dependencies that don't work, or not
+#   install all needed dependencies.
+#Pipfile.lock
+
+# UV
+#   Similar to Pipfile.lock, it is generally recommended to include uv.lock in version control.
+#   This is especially recommended for binary packages to ensure reproducibility, and is more
+#   commonly ignored for libraries.
+#uv.lock
+
+# poetry
+#   Similar to Pipfile.lock, it is generally recommended to include poetry.lock in version control.
+#   This is especially recommended for binary packages to ensure reproducibility, and is more
+#   commonly ignored for libraries.
+#   https://python-poetry.org/docs/basic-usage/#commit-your-poetrylock-file-to-version-control
+#poetry.lock
+
+# pdm
+#   Similar to Pipfile.lock, it is generally recommended to include pdm.lock in version control.
+#pdm.lock
+#   pdm stores project-wide configurations in .pdm.toml, but it is recommended to not include it
+#   in version control.
+#   https://pdm.fming.dev/latest/usage/project/#working-with-version-control
+.pdm.toml
+.pdm-python
+.pdm-build/
+
+# PEP 582; used by e.g. github.com/David-OConnor/pyflow and github.com/pdm-project/pdm
+__pypackages__/
+
+# Celery stuff
+celerybeat-schedule
+celerybeat.pid
+
+# SageMath parsed files
+*.sage.py
+
+# Environments
+.env
+.venv
+env/
+venv/
+ENV/
+env.bak/
+venv.bak/
+
+# Spyder project settings
+.spyderproject
+.spyproject
+
+# Rope project settings
+.ropeproject
+
+# mkdocs documentation
+/site
+
+# mypy
+.mypy_cache/
+.dmypy.json
+dmypy.json
+
+# Pyre type checker
+.pyre/
+
+# pytype static type analyzer
+.pytype/
+
+# Cython debug symbols
+cython_debug/
+
+# PyCharm
+#  JetBrains specific template is maintained in a separate JetBrains.gitignore that can
+#  be found at https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Global/JetBrains.gitignore
+#  and can be added to the global gitignore or merged into this file.  For a more nuclear
+#  option (not recommended) you can uncomment the following to ignore the entire idea folder.
+#.idea/
+
+# PyPI configuration file
+.pypirc

Dockerfile

@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-FROM pytorch/pytorch:1.11.0-cuda11.3-cudnn8-devel
-RUN apt-key adv --fetch-keys https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1804/x86_64/3bf863cc.pub && \
-    apt-key adv --fetch-keys https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/machine-learning/repos/ubuntu1804/x86_64/7fa2af80.pub
-RUN apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install -y wget && \
-    wget -qO - https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1804/x86_64/7fa2af80.pub | apt-key add - && \
-    apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install -y git && \
-    apt-get install libsndfile1 -y && \
-    apt-get clean
-    
-RUN pip install --upgrade pip
-RUN pip install --upgrade setuptools
-RUN pip install git+https://github.com/m-bain/whisperx.git
-RUN pip install jupyter ipykernel
-EXPOSE 8888
-# Use external volume for data
-ENV NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES 1
-CMD ["jupyter", "notebook", "--ip=0.0.0.0", "--port=8888", "--NotebookApp.token=''","--NotebookApp.password=''", "--allow-root"]

LICENSE

@@ -1,27 +1,24 @@
-Copyright (c) 2022, Max Bain
+BSD 2-Clause License
-All rights reserved.
+
+Copyright (c) 2024, Max Bain
 
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
-1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
-2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
-   documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
-   must display the following acknowledgement:
-   This product includes software developed by Max Bain.
-4. Neither the name of Max Bain nor the
-   names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
-   derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
 
-THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER ''AS IS'' AND ANY
+1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
-EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
+   list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
-WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
+
+2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
+   this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
+   and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+
+THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
+AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
+IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
 DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
 FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
 DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
 SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
 CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
-OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE 
+OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
-USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

MANIFEST.in

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 include whisperx/assets/*
-include whisperx/assets/gpt2/*
+include LICENSE
-include whisperx/assets/multilingual/*
+include requirements.txt
-include whisperx/normalizers/english.json

README.md

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 </p>
 
 
-<img width="1216" align="center" alt="whisperx-arch" src="figures/pipeline.png">
+<img width="1216" align="center" alt="whisperx-arch" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/m-bain/whisperX/refs/heads/main/figures/pipeline.png">
 
 
 <!-- <p align="left">Whisper-Based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) with improved timestamp accuracy + quality via forced phoneme alignment and voice-activity based batching for fast inference.</p> -->
@@ -32,12 +32,12 @@
 <!-- <h2 align="left", id="what-is-it">What is it 🔎</h2> -->
 
 
-This repository provides fast automatic speaker recognition (70x realtime with large-v2) with word-level timestamps and speaker diarization.
+This repository provides fast automatic speech recognition (70x realtime with large-v2) with word-level timestamps and speaker diarization.
 
 - ⚡️ Batched inference for 70x realtime transcription using whisper large-v2
 - 🪶 [faster-whisper](https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper) backend, requires <8GB gpu memory for large-v2 with beam_size=5
 - 🎯 Accurate word-level timestamps using wav2vec2 alignment
-- 👯‍♂️ Multispeaker ASR using speaker diarization from [pyannote-audio](https://github.com/pyannote/pyannote-audio) (labels each segment/word with speaker ID) 
+- 👯‍♂️ Multispeaker ASR using speaker diarization from [pyannote-audio](https://github.com/pyannote/pyannote-audio) (speaker ID labels) 
 - 🗣️ VAD preprocessing, reduces hallucination & batching with no WER degradation
 
 
@@ -52,59 +52,63 @@ This repository provides fast automatic speaker recognition (70x realtime with l
 
 **Speaker Diarization** is the process of partitioning an audio stream containing human speech into homogeneous segments according to the identity of each speaker.
 
-- v3 pre-release [this branch](https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/tree/v3) *70x speed-up open-sourced. Using batched whisper with faster-whisper backend*!
-- v2 released, code cleanup, imports whisper library. VAD filtering is now turned on by default, as in the paper.
-- Paper drop🎓👨‍🏫! Please see our [ArxiV preprint](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00747) for benchmarking and details of WhisperX. We also introduce more efficient batch inference resulting in large-v2 with *60-70x REAL TIME speed (not provided in this repo).
-- VAD filtering: Voice Activity Detection (VAD) from [Pyannote.audio](https://huggingface.co/pyannote/voice-activity-detection) is used as a preprocessing step to remove reliance on whisper timestamps and only transcribe audio segments containing speech. add `--vad_filter True` flag, increases timestamp accuracy and robustness (requires more GPU mem due to 30s inputs in wav2vec2)
-- Character level timestamps (see `*.char.ass` file output)
-- Diarization (still in beta, add `--diarize`)
-
 <h2 align="left", id="highlights">New🚨</h2>
 
+- 1st place at [Ego4d transcription challenge](https://eval.ai/web/challenges/challenge-page/1637/leaderboard/3931/WER)  🏆
+- _WhisperX_ accepted at INTERSPEECH 2023 
 - v3 transcript segment-per-sentence: using nltk sent_tokenize for better subtitlting & better diarization
 - v3 released, 70x speed-up open-sourced. Using batched whisper with [faster-whisper](https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper) backend!
 - v2 released, code cleanup, imports whisper library VAD filtering is now turned on by default, as in the paper.
 - Paper drop🎓👨‍🏫! Please see our [ArxiV preprint](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00747) for benchmarking and details of WhisperX. We also introduce more efficient batch inference resulting in large-v2 with *60-70x REAL TIME speed.
 
 <h2 align="left" id="setup">Setup ⚙️</h2>
-Tested for PyTorch 2.0, Python 3.10 (use other versions at your own risk!)
 
-GPU execution requires the NVIDIA libraries cuBLAS 11.x and cuDNN 8.x to be installed on the system. Please refer to the [CTranslate2 documentation](https://opennmt.net/CTranslate2/installation.html).
+### 1. Simple Installation (Recommended)
 
+The easiest way to install WhisperX is through PyPi:
 
-### 1. Create Python3.10 environment
+```bash
-
+pip install whisperx
-`conda create --name whisperx python=3.10`
-
-`conda activate whisperx`
-
-
-### 2. Install PyTorch2.0, e.g. for Linux and Windows CUDA11.7:
-
-`pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio`
-
-See other methods [here.](https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/)
-
-### 3. Install this repo
-
-`pip install git+https://github.com/m-bain/whisperx.git@v3`
-
-If already installed, update package to most recent commit
-
-`pip install git+https://github.com/m-bain/whisperx.git@v3 --upgrade`
-
-If wishing to modify this package, clone and install in editable mode:
 ```
-$ git clone https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX.git
+
-$ cd whisperX
+Or if using [uvx](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/tools/#running-tools):
-$ pip install -e .
+
+```bash
+uvx whisperx
 ```
 
+### 2. Advanced Installation Options
+
+These installation methods are for developers or users with specific needs. If you're not sure, stick with the simple installation above.
+
+#### Option A: Install from GitHub
+
+To install directly from the GitHub repository:
+
+```bash
+uvx git+https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX.git
+```
+
+#### Option B: Developer Installation
+
+If you want to modify the code or contribute to the project:
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX.git
+cd whisperX
+uv sync --all-extras --dev
+```
+
+> **Note**: The development version may contain experimental features and bugs. Use the stable PyPI release for production environments.
+
 You may also need to install ffmpeg, rust etc. Follow openAI instructions here https://github.com/openai/whisper#setup.
 
 ### Speaker Diarization
-To **enable Speaker. Diarization**, include your Hugging Face access token that you can generate from [Here](https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens) after the `--hf_token` argument and accept the user agreement for the following models: [Segmentation](https://huggingface.co/pyannote/segmentation) , [Voice Activity Detection (VAD)](https://huggingface.co/pyannote/voice-activity-detection) , and [Speaker Diarization](https://huggingface.co/pyannote/speaker-diarization)
 
+To **enable Speaker Diarization**, include your Hugging Face access token (read) that you can generate from [Here](https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens) after the `--hf_token` argument and accept the user agreement for the following models: [Segmentation](https://huggingface.co/pyannote/segmentation-3.0) and [Speaker-Diarization-3.1](https://huggingface.co/pyannote/speaker-diarization-3.1) (if you choose to use Speaker-Diarization 2.x, follow requirements [here](https://huggingface.co/pyannote/speaker-diarization) instead.)
+
+> **Note**<br>
+> As of Oct 11, 2023, there is a known issue regarding slow performance with pyannote/Speaker-Diarization-3.0 in whisperX. It is due to dependency conflicts between faster-whisper and pyannote-audio 3.0.0. Please see [this issue](https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/issues/499) for more details and potential workarounds.
 
 <h2 align="left" id="example">Usage 💬 (command line)</h2>
 
@@ -112,7 +116,7 @@ To **enable Speaker. Diarization**, include your Hugging Face access token that
 
 Run whisper on example segment (using default params, whisper small) add `--highlight_words True` to visualise word timings in the .srt file.
 
-    whisperx examples/sample01.wav
+    whisperx path/to/audio.wav
 
 
 Result using *WhisperX* with forced alignment to wav2vec2.0 large:
@@ -126,23 +130,27 @@ https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/36994049/207743923-b4f0d537-29ae-4be2-
 
 For increased timestamp accuracy, at the cost of higher gpu mem, use bigger models (bigger alignment model not found to be that helpful, see paper) e.g.
 
-    whisperx examples/sample01.wav --model large-v2 --align_model WAV2VEC2_ASR_LARGE_LV60K_960H --batch_size 4
+    whisperx path/to/audio.wav --model large-v2 --align_model WAV2VEC2_ASR_LARGE_LV60K_960H --batch_size 4
 
 
 To label the transcript with speaker ID's (set number of speakers if known e.g. `--min_speakers 2` `--max_speakers 2`):
 
-    whisperx examples/sample01.wav --model large-v2 --diarize --highlight_words True
+    whisperx path/to/audio.wav --model large-v2 --diarize --highlight_words True
+
+To run on CPU instead of GPU (and for running on Mac OS X):
+
+    whisperx path/to/audio.wav --compute_type int8
 
 ### Other languages
 
-The phoneme ASR alignment model is *language-specific*, for tested languages these models are [automatically picked from torchaudio pipelines or huggingface](https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/blob/e909f2f766b23b2000f2d95df41f9b844ac53e49/whisperx/transcribe.py#L22).
+The phoneme ASR alignment model is *language-specific*, for tested languages these models are [automatically picked from torchaudio pipelines or huggingface](https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/blob/f2da2f858e99e4211fe4f64b5f2938b007827e17/whisperx/alignment.py#L24-L58).
 Just pass in the `--language` code, and use the whisper `--model large`.
 
-Currently default models provided for `{en, fr, de, es, it, ja, zh, nl, uk, pt}`. If the detected language is not in this list, you need to find a phoneme-based ASR model from [huggingface model hub](https://huggingface.co/models) and test it on your data.
+Currently default models provided for `{en, fr, de, es, it}` via torchaudio pipelines and many other languages via Hugging Face. Please find the list of currently supported languages under `DEFAULT_ALIGN_MODELS_HF` on [alignment.py](https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/blob/main/whisperx/alignment.py). If the detected language is not in this list, you need to find a phoneme-based ASR model from [huggingface model hub](https://huggingface.co/models) and test it on your data.
 
 
 #### E.g. German
-    whisperx --model large-v2 --language de examples/sample_de_01.wav
+    whisperx --model large-v2 --language de path/to/audio.wav
 
 https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/36994049/208298811-e36002ba-3698-4731-97d4-0aebd07e0eb3.mov
 
@@ -163,6 +171,10 @@ compute_type = "float16" # change to "int8" if low on GPU mem (may reduce accura
 # 1. Transcribe with original whisper (batched)
 model = whisperx.load_model("large-v2", device, compute_type=compute_type)
 
+# save model to local path (optional)
+# model_dir = "/path/"
+# model = whisperx.load_model("large-v2", device, compute_type=compute_type, download_root=model_dir)
+
 audio = whisperx.load_audio(audio_file)
 result = model.transcribe(audio, batch_size=batch_size)
 print(result["segments"]) # before alignment
@@ -183,14 +195,21 @@ print(result["segments"]) # after alignment
 diarize_model = whisperx.DiarizationPipeline(use_auth_token=YOUR_HF_TOKEN, device=device)
 
 # add min/max number of speakers if known
-diarize_segments = diarize_model(input_audio_path)
+diarize_segments = diarize_model(audio)
-# diarize_model(input_audio_path, min_speakers=min_speakers, max_speakers=max_speakers)
+# diarize_model(audio, min_speakers=min_speakers, max_speakers=max_speakers)
 
-result = assign_word_speakers(diarize_segments, result)
+result = whisperx.assign_word_speakers(diarize_segments, result)
 print(diarize_segments)
 print(result["segments"]) # segments are now assigned speaker IDs
 ```
 
+## Demos 🚀
+
+[![Replicate (large-v3](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Replicate+WhisperX+large-v3&message=Demo+%26+Cloud+API&color=blue)](https://replicate.com/victor-upmeet/whisperx) 
+[![Replicate (large-v2](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Replicate+WhisperX+large-v2&message=Demo+%26+Cloud+API&color=blue)](https://replicate.com/daanelson/whisperx) 
+[![Replicate (medium)](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Replicate+WhisperX+medium&message=Demo+%26+Cloud+API&color=blue)](https://replicate.com/carnifexer/whisperx) 
+
+If you don't have access to your own GPUs, use the links above to try out WhisperX. 
 
 <h2 align="left" id="whisper-mod">Technical Details 👷‍♂️</h2>
 
@@ -203,14 +222,14 @@ To reduce GPU memory requirements, try any of the following (2. & 3. can affect
 
 Transcription differences from openai's whisper:
 1. Transcription without timestamps. To enable single pass batching, whisper inference is performed `--without_timestamps True`, this ensures 1 forward pass per sample in the batch. However, this can cause discrepancies the default whisper output.
-2. VAD-based segment transcription, unlike the buffered transcription of openai's. In Wthe WhisperX paper we show this reduces WER, and enables accurate batched inference
+2. VAD-based segment transcription, unlike the buffered transcription of openai's. In the WhisperX paper we show this reduces WER, and enables accurate batched inference
 3.  `--condition_on_prev_text` is set to `False` by default (reduces hallucination)
 
 <h2 align="left" id="limitations">Limitations ⚠️</h2>
 
 - Transcript words which do not contain characters in the alignment models dictionary e.g. "2014." or "£13.60" cannot be aligned and therefore are not given a timing.
 - Overlapping speech is not handled particularly well by whisper nor whisperx
-- Diarization is far from perfect (working on this with custom model v4 -- see contact me).
+- Diarization is far from perfect
 - Language specific wav2vec2 model is needed
 
 
@@ -246,7 +265,7 @@ Bug finding and pull requests are also highly appreciated to keep this project g
 
 * [ ] Add benchmarking code (TEDLIUM for spd/WER & word segmentation)
 
-* [ ] Allow silero-vad as alternative VAD option
+* [x] Allow silero-vad as alternative VAD option
 
 * [ ] Improve diarization (word level). *Harder than first thought...*
 
@@ -254,7 +273,7 @@ Bug finding and pull requests are also highly appreciated to keep this project g
 <h2 align="left" id="contact">Contact/Support 📇</h2>
 
 
-Contact maxhbain@gmail.com for queries. WhisperX v4 development is underway with with siginificantly improved diarization. To support v4 and get early access, get in touch.
+Contact maxhbain@gmail.com for queries.
 
 <a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/maxhbain" target="_blank"><img src="https://cdn.buymeacoffee.com/buttons/default-orange.png" alt="Buy Me A Coffee" height="41" width="174"></a>
 
@@ -268,7 +287,9 @@ Borrows important alignment code from [PyTorch tutorial on forced alignment](htt
 And uses the wonderful pyannote VAD / Diarization https://github.com/pyannote/pyannote-audio
 
 
-Valuable VAD & Diarization Models from [pyannote audio][https://github.com/pyannote/pyannote-audio]
+Valuable VAD & Diarization Models from:
+- [pyannote audio][https://github.com/pyannote/pyannote-audio]
+- [silero vad][https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad]
 
 Great backend from [faster-whisper](https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper) and [CTranslate2](https://github.com/OpenNMT/CTranslate2)
 
@@ -283,7 +304,7 @@ If you use this in your research, please cite the paper:
 @article{bain2022whisperx,
   title={WhisperX: Time-Accurate Speech Transcription of Long-Form Audio},
   author={Bain, Max and Huh, Jaesung and Han, Tengda and Zisserman, Andrew},
-  journal={arXiv preprint, arXiv:2303.00747},
+  journal={INTERSPEECH 2023},
   year={2023}
 }
 ```

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-     "output_type": "stream",
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-      "  warn(f\"Failed to load image Python extension: {e}\")\n"
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-     "evalue": "CUDA out of memory. Tried to allocate 20.00 MiB (GPU 0; 7.79 GiB total capacity; 5.76 GiB already allocated; 59.19 MiB free; 6.06 GiB reserved in total by PyTorch) If reserved memory is >> allocated memory try setting max_split_size_mb to avoid fragmentation.  See documentation for Memory Management and PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF",
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-     ]
-    }
-   ],
-   "source": [
-    "import whisperx\n",
-    "import whisper\n",
-    "\n",
-    "device = \"cuda\" \n",
-    "audio_file = \"audio.mp3\"\n",
-    "\n",
-    "# transcribe with original whisper\n",
-    "model = whisper.load_model(\"large\", device)\n",
-    "result = model.transcribe(audio_file)\n",
-    "\n",
-    "print(result[\"segments\"]) # before alignment\n",
-    "\n",
-    "# load alignment model and metadata\n",
-    "model_a, metadata = whisperx.load_align_model(language_code=result[\"language\"], device=device)\n",
-    "\n",
-    "# align whisper output\n",
-    "result_aligned = whisperx.align(result[\"segments\"], model_a, metadata, audio_file, device)\n",
-    "\n",
-    "print(result_aligned[\"segments\"]) # after alignment\n",
-    "print(result_aligned[\"word_segments\"]) # after alignment"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "id": "b63e6170",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": []
-  }
- ],
- "metadata": {
-  "kernelspec": {
-   "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)",
-   "language": "python",
-   "name": "python3"
-  },
-  "language_info": {
-   "codemirror_mode": {
-    "name": "ipython",
-    "version": 3
-   },
-   "file_extension": ".py",
-   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
-   "name": "python",
-   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
-   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
-   "version": "3.8.12"
-  }
- },
- "nbformat": 4,
- "nbformat_minor": 5
-}

pyproject.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+[project]
+urls = { repository = "https://github.com/m-bain/whisperx" }
+authors = [{ name = "Max Bain" }]
+name = "whisperx"
+version = "3.3.3"
+description = "Time-Accurate Automatic Speech Recognition using Whisper."
+readme = "README.md"
+requires-python = ">=3.9, <3.13"
+license = { text = "BSD-2-Clause" }
+
+dependencies = [
+    "ctranslate2<4.5.0",
+    "faster-whisper>=1.1.1",
+    "nltk>=3.9.1",
+    "numpy>=2.0.2",
+    "onnxruntime>=1.19",
+    "pandas>=2.2.3",
+    "pyannote-audio>=3.3.2",
+    "torch>=2.5.1",
+    "torchaudio>=2.5.1",
+    "transformers>=4.48.0",
+]
+
+
+[project.scripts]
+whisperx = "whisperx.transcribe:cli"
+
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools"]
+
+[tool.setuptools]
+include-package-data = true
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+where = ["."]
+include = ["whisperx*"]

requirements.txt

@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-torch==2.0.0
-torchaudio==2.0.1
-faster-whisper
-transformers
-ffmpeg-python==0.2.0
-pandas
-setuptools==65.6.3
-nltk

setup.py

@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-import os
-
-import pkg_resources
-from setuptools import setup, find_packages
-
-setup(
-    name="whisperx",
-    py_modules=["whisperx"],
-    version="3.1.0",
-    description="Time-Accurate Automatic Speech Recognition.",
-    readme="README.md",
-    python_requires=">=3.8",
-    author="Max Bain",
-    url="https://github.com/m-bain/whisperx",
-    license="MIT",
-    packages=find_packages(exclude=["tests*"]),
-    install_requires=[
-        str(r)
-        for r in pkg_resources.parse_requirements(
-            open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "requirements.txt"))
-        )
-    ] + ["pyannote.audio @ git+https://github.com/pyannote/pyannote-audio@11b56a137a578db9335efc00298f6ec1932e6317"],
-    entry_points = {
-        'console_scripts': ['whisperx=whisperx.transcribe:cli'],
-    },
-    include_package_data=True,
-    extras_require={'dev': ['pytest']},
-)

whisperx/SubtitlesProcessor.py

@@ -0,0 +1,226 @@
+import math
+from whisperx.conjunctions import get_conjunctions, get_comma
+
+def normal_round(n):
+    if n - math.floor(n) < 0.5:
+        return math.floor(n)
+    return math.ceil(n)
+
+
+def format_timestamp(seconds: float, is_vtt: bool = False):
+
+    assert seconds >= 0, "non-negative timestamp expected"
+    milliseconds = round(seconds * 1000.0)
+
+    hours = milliseconds // 3_600_000
+    milliseconds -= hours * 3_600_000
+
+    minutes = milliseconds // 60_000
+    milliseconds -= minutes * 60_000
+
+    seconds = milliseconds // 1_000
+    milliseconds -= seconds * 1_000
+
+    separator = '.' if is_vtt else ','
+    
+    hours_marker = f"{hours:02d}:"
+    return (
+        f"{hours_marker}{minutes:02d}:{seconds:02d}{separator}{milliseconds:03d}"
+    )
+
+
+
+class SubtitlesProcessor:
+    def __init__(self, segments, lang, max_line_length = 45, min_char_length_splitter = 30, is_vtt = False):
+        self.comma = get_comma(lang)
+        self.conjunctions = set(get_conjunctions(lang))
+        self.segments = segments
+        self.lang = lang
+        self.max_line_length = max_line_length
+        self.min_char_length_splitter = min_char_length_splitter
+        self.is_vtt = is_vtt
+        complex_script_languages = ['th', 'lo', 'my', 'km', 'am', 'ko', 'ja', 'zh', 'ti', 'ta', 'te', 'kn', 'ml', 'hi', 'ne', 'mr', 'ar', 'fa', 'ur', 'ka']
+        if self.lang in complex_script_languages:
+            self.max_line_length = 30
+            self.min_char_length_splitter = 20
+
+    def estimate_timestamp_for_word(self, words, i, next_segment_start_time=None):
+        k = 0.25
+        has_prev_end = i > 0 and 'end' in words[i - 1]
+        has_next_start = i < len(words) - 1 and 'start' in words[i + 1]
+
+        if has_prev_end:
+            words[i]['start'] = words[i - 1]['end']
+            if has_next_start:
+                words[i]['end'] = words[i + 1]['start']
+            else:
+                if next_segment_start_time:
+                    words[i]['end'] = next_segment_start_time if next_segment_start_time - words[i - 1]['end'] <= 1 else next_segment_start_time - 0.5
+                else:
+                    words[i]['end'] = words[i]['start'] + len(words[i]['word']) * k
+
+        elif has_next_start:
+            words[i]['start'] = words[i + 1]['start'] - len(words[i]['word']) * k
+            words[i]['end'] = words[i + 1]['start']
+
+        else:
+            if next_segment_start_time:
+                words[i]['start'] = next_segment_start_time - 1
+                words[i]['end'] = next_segment_start_time - 0.5
+            else:
+                words[i]['start'] = 0
+                words[i]['end'] = 0
+
+
+
+    def process_segments(self, advanced_splitting=True):
+        subtitles = []
+        for i, segment in enumerate(self.segments):
+            next_segment_start_time = self.segments[i + 1]['start'] if i + 1 < len(self.segments) else None
+            
+            if advanced_splitting:
+
+                split_points = self.determine_advanced_split_points(segment, next_segment_start_time)
+                subtitles.extend(self.generate_subtitles_from_split_points(segment, split_points, next_segment_start_time))
+            else:
+                words = segment['words']
+                for i, word in enumerate(words):
+                    if 'start' not in word or 'end' not in word:
+                        self.estimate_timestamp_for_word(words, i, next_segment_start_time)
+
+                subtitles.append({
+                'start': segment['start'],
+                'end': segment['end'],
+                'text': segment['text']
+            })
+
+        return subtitles
+
+    def determine_advanced_split_points(self, segment, next_segment_start_time=None):
+        split_points = []
+        last_split_point = 0
+        char_count = 0
+
+        words = segment.get('words', segment['text'].split())
+        add_space = 0 if self.lang in ['zh', 'ja'] else 1
+
+        total_char_count = sum(len(word['word']) if isinstance(word, dict) else len(word) + add_space for word in words)
+        char_count_after = total_char_count
+
+        for i, word in enumerate(words):
+            word_text = word['word'] if isinstance(word, dict) else word
+            word_length = len(word_text) + add_space
+            char_count += word_length
+            char_count_after -= word_length
+
+            char_count_before = char_count - word_length
+
+            if isinstance(word, dict) and ('start' not in word or 'end' not in word):
+                self.estimate_timestamp_for_word(words, i, next_segment_start_time)
+
+            if char_count >= self.max_line_length:
+                midpoint = normal_round((last_split_point + i) / 2)
+                if char_count_before >= self.min_char_length_splitter:
+                    split_points.append(midpoint)
+                    last_split_point = midpoint + 1
+                    char_count = sum(len(words[j]['word']) if isinstance(words[j], dict) else len(words[j]) + add_space for j in range(last_split_point, i + 1))
+
+            elif word_text.endswith(self.comma) and char_count_before >= self.min_char_length_splitter and char_count_after >= self.min_char_length_splitter:
+                split_points.append(i)
+                last_split_point = i + 1
+                char_count = 0
+
+            elif word_text.lower() in self.conjunctions and char_count_before >= self.min_char_length_splitter and char_count_after >= self.min_char_length_splitter:
+                split_points.append(i - 1)
+                last_split_point = i
+                char_count = word_length
+
+        return split_points
+
+    
+    def generate_subtitles_from_split_points(self, segment, split_points, next_start_time=None):
+        subtitles = []
+        
+        words = segment.get('words', segment['text'].split())
+        total_word_count = len(words)
+        total_time = segment['end'] - segment['start']
+        elapsed_time = segment['start']
+        prefix = ' ' if self.lang not in ['zh', 'ja'] else ''
+        start_idx = 0
+        for split_point in split_points:
+
+            fragment_words = words[start_idx:split_point + 1]
+            current_word_count = len(fragment_words)
+            
+
+            if isinstance(fragment_words[0], dict):
+                start_time = fragment_words[0]['start']
+                end_time = fragment_words[-1]['end']
+                next_start_time_for_word = words[split_point + 1]['start'] if split_point + 1 < len(words) else None
+                if next_start_time_for_word and (next_start_time_for_word - end_time) <= 0.8:
+                    end_time = next_start_time_for_word
+            else:
+                fragment = prefix.join(fragment_words).strip()
+                current_duration = (current_word_count / total_word_count) * total_time
+                start_time = elapsed_time
+                end_time = elapsed_time + current_duration
+                elapsed_time += current_duration
+
+
+            subtitles.append({
+                'start': start_time,
+                'end': end_time,
+                'text': fragment if not isinstance(fragment_words[0], dict) else prefix.join(word['word'] for word in fragment_words)
+            })
+            
+            start_idx = split_point + 1
+
+        # Handle the last fragment
+        if start_idx < len(words):
+            fragment_words = words[start_idx:]
+            current_word_count = len(fragment_words)
+            
+            if isinstance(fragment_words[0], dict):
+                start_time = fragment_words[0]['start']
+                end_time = fragment_words[-1]['end']
+            else:
+                fragment = prefix.join(fragment_words).strip()
+                current_duration = (current_word_count / total_word_count) * total_time
+                start_time = elapsed_time
+                end_time = elapsed_time + current_duration
+
+            if next_start_time and (next_start_time - end_time) <= 0.8:
+                end_time = next_start_time
+
+            subtitles.append({
+                'start': start_time,
+                'end': end_time if end_time is not None else segment['end'],
+                'text': fragment if not isinstance(fragment_words[0], dict) else prefix.join(word['word'] for word in fragment_words)
+            })
+            
+        return subtitles
+    
+
+
+    def save(self, filename="subtitles.srt", advanced_splitting=True):
+        
+        subtitles = self.process_segments(advanced_splitting)
+
+        def write_subtitle(file, idx, start_time, end_time, text):
+
+            file.write(f"{idx}\n")
+            file.write(f"{start_time} --> {end_time}\n")
+            file.write(text + "\n\n")
+
+        with open(filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as file:
+            if self.is_vtt:
+                file.write("WEBVTT\n\n")
+            
+            if advanced_splitting:
+                for idx, subtitle in enumerate(subtitles, 1):
+                    start_time = format_timestamp(subtitle['start'], self.is_vtt)
+                    end_time = format_timestamp(subtitle['end'], self.is_vtt)
+                    text = subtitle['text'].strip()
+                    write_subtitle(file, idx, start_time, end_time, text)
+
+        return len(subtitles)

whisperx/__init__.py

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-from .transcribe import load_model
+from whisperx.alignment import load_align_model as load_align_model, align as align
-from .alignment import load_align_model, align
+from whisperx.asr import load_model as load_model
-from .audio import load_audio
+from whisperx.audio import load_audio as load_audio
-from .diarize import assign_word_speakers, DiarizationPipeline
+from whisperx.diarize import (
+    assign_word_speakers as assign_word_speakers,
+    DiarizationPipeline as DiarizationPipeline,
+)

whisperx/__main__.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from .transcribe import cli
+from whisperx.transcribe import cli
 
 
 cli()

whisperx/alignment.py

@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
-""""
+"""
 Forced Alignment with Whisper
 C. Max Bain
 """
+import math
+
 from dataclasses import dataclass
-from typing import Iterator, Union
+from typing import Iterable, Optional, Union, List
 
 import numpy as np
 import pandas as pd
@@ -11,9 +13,18 @@ import torch
 import torchaudio
 from transformers import Wav2Vec2ForCTC, Wav2Vec2Processor
 
-from .audio import SAMPLE_RATE, load_audio
+from whisperx.audio import SAMPLE_RATE, load_audio
-from .utils import interpolate_nans
+from whisperx.utils import interpolate_nans
-import nltk
+from whisperx.types import (
+    AlignedTranscriptionResult,
+    SingleSegment,
+    SingleAlignedSegment,
+    SingleWordSegment,
+    SegmentData,
+)
+from nltk.tokenize.punkt import PunktSentenceTokenizer, PunktParameters
+
+PUNKT_ABBREVIATIONS = ['dr', 'vs', 'mr', 'mrs', 'prof']
 
 LANGUAGES_WITHOUT_SPACES = ["ja", "zh"]
 
@@ -32,6 +43,7 @@ DEFAULT_ALIGN_MODELS_HF = {
     "uk": "Yehor/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m-uk-with-small-lm",
     "pt": "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-portuguese",
     "ar": "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-arabic",
+    "cs": "comodoro/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m-cs-250",
     "ru": "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-russian",
     "pl": "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-polish",
     "hu": "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-hungarian",
@@ -39,11 +51,30 @@ DEFAULT_ALIGN_MODELS_HF = {
     "fa": "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-persian",
     "el": "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-greek",
     "tr": "mpoyraz/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m-cv7-turkish",
+    "da": "saattrupdan/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m-ftspeech",
     "he": "imvladikon/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m-hebrew",
+    "vi": 'nguyenvulebinh/wav2vec2-base-vi',
+    "ko": "kresnik/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-korean",
+    "ur": "kingabzpro/wav2vec2-large-xls-r-300m-Urdu",
+    "te": "anuragshas/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-telugu",
+    "hi": "theainerd/Wav2Vec2-large-xlsr-hindi",
+    "ca": "softcatala/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-catala",
+    "ml": "gvs/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-malayalam",
+    "no": "NbAiLab/nb-wav2vec2-1b-bokmaal-v2",
+    "nn": "NbAiLab/nb-wav2vec2-1b-nynorsk",
+    "sk": "comodoro/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m-sk-cv8",
+    "sl": "anton-l/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-slovenian",
+    "hr": "classla/wav2vec2-xls-r-parlaspeech-hr",
+    "ro": "gigant/romanian-wav2vec2",
+    "eu": "stefan-it/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-basque",
+    "gl": "ifrz/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-galician",
+    "ka": "xsway/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-georgian",
+    "lv": "jimregan/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-latvian-cv",
+    "tl": "Khalsuu/filipino-wav2vec2-l-xls-r-300m-official",
 }
 
 
-def load_align_model(language_code, device, model_name=None, model_dir=None):
+def load_align_model(language_code: str, device: str, model_name: Optional[str] = None, model_dir=None):
     if model_name is None:
         # use default model
         if language_code in DEFAULT_ALIGN_MODELS_TORCH:
@@ -63,8 +94,8 @@ def load_align_model(language_code, device, model_name=None, model_dir=None):
         align_dictionary = {c.lower(): i for i, c in enumerate(labels)}
     else:
         try:
-            processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained(model_name)
+            processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained(model_name, cache_dir=model_dir)
-            align_model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained(model_name)
+            align_model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained(model_name, cache_dir=model_dir)
         except Exception as e:
             print(e)
             print(f"Error loading model from huggingface, check https://huggingface.co/models for finetuned wav2vec2.0 models")
@@ -80,14 +111,16 @@ def load_align_model(language_code, device, model_name=None, model_dir=None):
 
 
 def align(
-    transcript: Iterator[dict],
+    transcript: Iterable[SingleSegment],
     model: torch.nn.Module,
     align_model_metadata: dict,
     audio: Union[str, np.ndarray, torch.Tensor],
     device: str,
     interpolate_method: str = "nearest",
     return_char_alignments: bool = False,
-):
+    print_progress: bool = False,
+    combined_progress: bool = False,
+) -> AlignedTranscriptionResult:
     """
     Align phoneme recognition predictions to known transcription.
     """
@@ -106,8 +139,16 @@ def align(
     model_type = align_model_metadata["type"]
 
     # 1. Preprocess to keep only characters in dictionary
+    total_segments = len(transcript)
+    # Store temporary processing values
+    segment_data: dict[int, SegmentData] = {}
     for sdx, segment in enumerate(transcript):
         # strip spaces at beginning / end, but keep track of the amount.
+        if print_progress:
+            base_progress = ((sdx + 1) / total_segments) * 100
+            percent_complete = (50 + base_progress / 2) if combined_progress else base_progress
+            print(f"Progress: {percent_complete:.2f}%...")
+            
         num_leading = len(segment["text"]) - len(segment["text"].lstrip())
         num_trailing = len(segment["text"]) - len(segment["text"].rstrip())
         text = segment["text"]
@@ -133,60 +174,83 @@ def align(
             elif char_ in model_dictionary.keys():
                 clean_char.append(char_)
                 clean_cdx.append(cdx)
+            else:
+                # add placeholder
+                clean_char.append('*')
+                clean_cdx.append(cdx)
 
         clean_wdx = []
         for wdx, wrd in enumerate(per_word):
-            if any([c in model_dictionary.keys() for c in wrd]):
+            if any([c in model_dictionary.keys() for c in wrd.lower()]):
+                clean_wdx.append(wdx)
+            else:
+                # index for placeholder
                 clean_wdx.append(wdx)
 
-        sentence_spans = list(nltk.tokenize.punkt.PunktSentenceTokenizer().span_tokenize(text))
                 
-        segment["clean_char"] = clean_char
+        punkt_param = PunktParameters()
-        segment["clean_cdx"] = clean_cdx
+        punkt_param.abbrev_types = set(PUNKT_ABBREVIATIONS)
-        segment["clean_wdx"] = clean_wdx
+        sentence_splitter = PunktSentenceTokenizer(punkt_param)
-        segment["sentence_spans"] = sentence_spans
+        sentence_spans = list(sentence_splitter.span_tokenize(text))
 
-    aligned_segments = []
+        segment_data[sdx] = {
+            "clean_char": clean_char,
+            "clean_cdx": clean_cdx,
+            "clean_wdx": clean_wdx,
+            "sentence_spans": sentence_spans
+        }
+            
+    aligned_segments: List[SingleAlignedSegment] = []
     
     # 2. Get prediction matrix from alignment model & align
     for sdx, segment in enumerate(transcript):
+        
         t1 = segment["start"]
         t2 = segment["end"]
         text = segment["text"]
 
-        aligned_seg = {
+        aligned_seg: SingleAlignedSegment = {
             "start": t1,
             "end": t2,
             "text": text,
             "words": [],
+            "chars": None,
         }
 
         if return_char_alignments:
             aligned_seg["chars"] = []
 
         # check we can align
-        if len(segment["clean_char"]) == 0:
+        if len(segment_data[sdx]["clean_char"]) == 0:
             print(f'Failed to align segment ("{segment["text"]}"): no characters in this segment found in model dictionary, resorting to original...')
             aligned_segments.append(aligned_seg)
             continue
 
-        if t1 >= MAX_DURATION or t2 - t1 < 0.02:
+        if t1 >= MAX_DURATION:
-            print("Failed to align segment: original start time longer than audio duration, skipping...")
+            print(f'Failed to align segment ("{segment["text"]}"): original start time longer than audio duration, skipping...')
             aligned_segments.append(aligned_seg)
             continue
 
-        text_clean = "".join(segment["clean_char"])
+        text_clean = "".join(segment_data[sdx]["clean_char"])
-        tokens = [model_dictionary[c] for c in text_clean]
+        tokens = [model_dictionary.get(c, -1) for c in text_clean]
 
         f1 = int(t1 * SAMPLE_RATE)
         f2 = int(t2 * SAMPLE_RATE)
 
         # TODO: Probably can get some speedup gain with batched inference here
         waveform_segment = audio[:, f1:f2]
+        # Handle the minimum input length for wav2vec2 models
+        if waveform_segment.shape[-1] < 400:
+            lengths = torch.as_tensor([waveform_segment.shape[-1]]).to(device)
+            waveform_segment = torch.nn.functional.pad(
+                waveform_segment, (0, 400 - waveform_segment.shape[-1])
+            )
+        else:
+            lengths = None
             
         with torch.inference_mode():
             if model_type == "torchaudio":
-                emissions, _ = model(waveform_segment.to(device))
+                emissions, _ = model(waveform_segment.to(device), lengths=lengths)
             elif model_type == "huggingface":
                 emissions = model(waveform_segment.to(device)).logits
             else:
@@ -201,7 +265,8 @@ def align(
                 blank_id = code
 
         trellis = get_trellis(emission, tokens, blank_id)
-        path = backtrack(trellis, emission, tokens, blank_id)
+        # path = backtrack(trellis, emission, tokens, blank_id)
+        path = backtrack_beam(trellis, emission, tokens, blank_id, beam_width=2)
 
         if path is None:
             print(f'Failed to align segment ("{segment["text"]}"): backtrack failed, resorting to original...')
@@ -210,7 +275,7 @@ def align(
 
         char_segments = merge_repeats(path, text_clean)
 
-        duration = t2 -t1
+        duration = t2 - t1
         ratio = duration * waveform_segment.size(0) / (trellis.size(0) - 1)
 
         # assign timestamps to aligned characters
@@ -218,8 +283,8 @@ def align(
         word_idx = 0
         for cdx, char in enumerate(text):
             start, end, score = None, None, None
-            if cdx in segment["clean_cdx"]:
+            if cdx in segment_data[sdx]["clean_cdx"]:
-                char_seg = char_segments[segment["clean_cdx"].index(cdx)]
+                char_seg = char_segments[segment_data[sdx]["clean_cdx"].index(cdx)]
                 start = round(char_seg.start * ratio + t1, 3)
                 end = round(char_seg.end * ratio + t1, 3)
                 score = round(char_seg.score, 3)
@@ -245,13 +310,14 @@ def align(
         aligned_subsegments = []
         # assign sentence_idx to each character index
         char_segments_arr["sentence-idx"] = None
-        for sdx, (sstart, send) in enumerate(segment["sentence_spans"]):
+        for sdx2, (sstart, send) in enumerate(segment_data[sdx]["sentence_spans"]):
             curr_chars = char_segments_arr.loc[(char_segments_arr.index >= sstart) & (char_segments_arr.index <= send)]
-            char_segments_arr.loc[(char_segments_arr.index >= sstart) & (char_segments_arr.index <= send), "sentence-idx"] = sdx
+            char_segments_arr.loc[(char_segments_arr.index >= sstart) & (char_segments_arr.index <= send), "sentence-idx"] = sdx2
 
             sentence_text = text[sstart:send]
             sentence_start = curr_chars["start"].min()
-            sentence_end = curr_chars["end"].max()
+            end_chars = curr_chars[curr_chars["char"] != ' ']
+            sentence_end = end_chars["end"].max()
             sentence_words = []
 
             for word_idx in curr_chars["word-idx"].unique():
@@ -259,6 +325,10 @@ def align(
                 word_text = "".join(word_chars["char"].tolist()).strip()
                 if len(word_text) == 0:
                     continue
+
+                # dont use space character for alignment
+                word_chars = word_chars[word_chars["char"] != " "]
+
                 word_start = word_chars["start"].min()
                 word_end = word_chars["end"].max()
                 word_score = round(word_chars["score"].mean(), 3)
@@ -294,6 +364,8 @@ def align(
         aligned_subsegments["end"] = interpolate_nans(aligned_subsegments["end"], method=interpolate_method)
         # concatenate sentences with same timestamps
         agg_dict = {"text": " ".join, "words": "sum"}
+        if model_lang in LANGUAGES_WITHOUT_SPACES:
+            agg_dict["text"] = "".join
         if return_char_alignments:
             agg_dict["chars"] = "sum"
         aligned_subsegments= aligned_subsegments.groupby(["start", "end"], as_index=False).agg(agg_dict)
@@ -301,7 +373,7 @@ def align(
         aligned_segments += aligned_subsegments
 
     # create word_segments list
-    word_segments = []
+    word_segments: List[SingleWordSegment] = []
     for segment in aligned_segments:
         word_segments += segment["words"]
 
@@ -310,70 +382,203 @@ def align(
 """
 source: https://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/forced_alignment_with_torchaudio_tutorial.html
 """
+
+
 def get_trellis(emission, tokens, blank_id=0):
     num_frame = emission.size(0)
     num_tokens = len(tokens)
 
-    # Trellis has extra diemsions for both time axis and tokens.
+    trellis = torch.zeros((num_frame, num_tokens))
-    # The extra dim for tokens represents <SoS> (start-of-sentence)
+    trellis[1:, 0] = torch.cumsum(emission[1:, blank_id], 0)
-    # The extra dim for time axis is for simplification of the code.
+    trellis[0, 1:] = -float("inf")
-    trellis = torch.empty((num_frame + 1, num_tokens + 1))
+    trellis[-num_tokens + 1:, 0] = float("inf")
-    trellis[0, 0] = 0
-    trellis[1:, 0] = torch.cumsum(emission[:, 0], 0)
-    trellis[0, -num_tokens:] = -float("inf")
-    trellis[-num_tokens:, 0] = float("inf")
 
-    for t in range(num_frame):
+    for t in range(num_frame - 1):
         trellis[t + 1, 1:] = torch.maximum(
             # Score for staying at the same token
             trellis[t, 1:] + emission[t, blank_id],
             # Score for changing to the next token
-            trellis[t, :-1] + emission[t, tokens],
+            # trellis[t, :-1] + emission[t, tokens[1:]],
+            trellis[t, :-1] + get_wildcard_emission(emission[t], tokens[1:], blank_id),
         )
     return trellis
 
+
+def get_wildcard_emission(frame_emission, tokens, blank_id):
+    """Processing token emission scores containing wildcards (vectorized version)
+
+    Args:
+        frame_emission: Emission probability vector for the current frame
+        tokens: List of token indices
+        blank_id: ID of the blank token
+
+    Returns:
+        tensor: Maximum probability score for each token position
+    """
+    assert 0 <= blank_id < len(frame_emission)
+
+    # Convert tokens to a tensor if they are not already
+    tokens = torch.tensor(tokens) if not isinstance(tokens, torch.Tensor) else tokens
+
+    # Create a mask to identify wildcard positions
+    wildcard_mask = (tokens == -1)
+
+    # Get scores for non-wildcard positions
+    regular_scores = frame_emission[tokens.clamp(min=0)]  # clamp to avoid -1 index
+
+    # Create a mask and compute the maximum value without modifying frame_emission
+    max_valid_score = frame_emission.clone()   # Create a copy
+    max_valid_score[blank_id] = float('-inf')  # Modify the copy to exclude the blank token
+    max_valid_score = max_valid_score.max()
+
+    # Use where operation to combine results
+    result = torch.where(wildcard_mask, max_valid_score, regular_scores)
+
+    return result
+
+
 @dataclass
 class Point:
     token_index: int
     time_index: int
     score: float
 
+
 def backtrack(trellis, emission, tokens, blank_id=0):
-    # Note:
+    t, j = trellis.size(0) - 1, trellis.size(1) - 1
-    # j and t are indices for trellis, which has extra dimensions
+
-    # for time and tokens at the beginning.
+    path = [Point(j, t, emission[t, blank_id].exp().item())]
-    # When referring to time frame index `T` in trellis,
+    while j > 0:
-    # the corresponding index in emission is `T-1`.
+        # Should not happen but just in case
-    # Similarly, when referring to token index `J` in trellis,
+        assert t > 0
-    # the corresponding index in transcript is `J-1`.
-    j = trellis.size(1) - 1
-    t_start = torch.argmax(trellis[:, j]).item()
 
-    path = []
-    for t in range(t_start, 0, -1):
         # 1. Figure out if the current position was stay or change
-        # Note (again):
+        # Frame-wise score of stay vs change
-        # `emission[J-1]` is the emission at time frame `J` of trellis dimension.
+        p_stay = emission[t - 1, blank_id]
-        # Score for token staying the same from time frame J-1 to T.
+        # p_change = emission[t - 1, tokens[j]]
-        stayed = trellis[t - 1, j] + emission[t - 1, blank_id]
+        p_change = get_wildcard_emission(emission[t - 1], [tokens[j]], blank_id)[0]
-        # Score for token changing from C-1 at T-1 to J at T.
-        changed = trellis[t - 1, j - 1] + emission[t - 1, tokens[j - 1]]
 
-        # 2. Store the path with frame-wise probability.
+        # Context-aware score for stay vs change
-        prob = emission[t - 1, tokens[j - 1] if changed > stayed else 0].exp().item()
+        stayed = trellis[t - 1, j] + p_stay
-        # Return token index and time index in non-trellis coordinate.
+        changed = trellis[t - 1, j - 1] + p_change
-        path.append(Point(j - 1, t - 1, prob))
 
-        # 3. Update the token
+        # Update position
+        t -= 1
         if changed > stayed:
             j -= 1
-            if j == 0:
+
-                break
+        # Store the path with frame-wise probability.
-    else:
+        prob = (p_change if changed > stayed else p_stay).exp().item()
-        # failed
+        path.append(Point(j, t, prob))
-        return None
+
+    # Now j == 0, which means, it reached the SoS.
+    # Fill up the rest for the sake of visualization
+    while t > 0:
+        prob = emission[t - 1, blank_id].exp().item()
+        path.append(Point(j, t - 1, prob))
+        t -= 1
+
     return path[::-1]
 
+
+
+@dataclass
+class Path:
+    points: List[Point]
+    score: float
+
+
+@dataclass
+class BeamState:
+    """State in beam search."""
+    token_index: int   # Current token position
+    time_index: int    # Current time step
+    score: float       # Cumulative score
+    path: List[Point]  # Path history
+
+
+def backtrack_beam(trellis, emission, tokens, blank_id=0, beam_width=5):
+    """Standard CTC beam search backtracking implementation.
+
+    Args:
+        trellis (torch.Tensor): The trellis (or lattice) of shape (T, N), where T is the number of time steps
+                                and N is the number of tokens (including the blank token).
+        emission (torch.Tensor): The emission probabilities of shape (T, N).
+        tokens (List[int]): List of token indices (excluding the blank token).
+        blank_id (int, optional): The ID of the blank token. Defaults to 0.
+        beam_width (int, optional): The number of top paths to keep during beam search. Defaults to 5.
+
+    Returns:
+        List[Point]: the best path
+    """
+    T, J = trellis.size(0) - 1, trellis.size(1) - 1
+
+    init_state = BeamState(
+        token_index=J,
+        time_index=T,
+        score=trellis[T, J],
+        path=[Point(J, T, emission[T, blank_id].exp().item())]
+    )
+
+    beams = [init_state]
+
+    while beams and beams[0].token_index > 0:
+        next_beams = []
+
+        for beam in beams:
+            t, j = beam.time_index, beam.token_index
+
+            if t <= 0:
+                continue
+
+            p_stay = emission[t - 1, blank_id]
+            p_change = get_wildcard_emission(emission[t - 1], [tokens[j]], blank_id)[0]
+
+            stay_score = trellis[t - 1, j]
+            change_score = trellis[t - 1, j - 1] if j > 0 else float('-inf')
+
+            # Stay
+            if not math.isinf(stay_score):
+                new_path = beam.path.copy()
+                new_path.append(Point(j, t - 1, p_stay.exp().item()))
+                next_beams.append(BeamState(
+                    token_index=j,
+                    time_index=t - 1,
+                    score=stay_score,
+                    path=new_path
+                ))
+
+            # Change
+            if j > 0 and not math.isinf(change_score):
+                new_path = beam.path.copy()
+                new_path.append(Point(j - 1, t - 1, p_change.exp().item()))
+                next_beams.append(BeamState(
+                    token_index=j - 1,
+                    time_index=t - 1,
+                    score=change_score,
+                    path=new_path
+                ))
+
+        # sort by score
+        beams = sorted(next_beams, key=lambda x: x.score, reverse=True)[:beam_width]
+
+        if not beams:
+            break
+
+    if not beams:
+        return None
+
+    best_beam = beams[0]
+    t = best_beam.time_index
+    j = best_beam.token_index
+    while t > 0:
+        prob = emission[t - 1, blank_id].exp().item()
+        best_beam.path.append(Point(j, t - 1, prob))
+        t -= 1
+
+    return best_beam.path[::-1]
+
+
 # Merge the labels
 @dataclass
 class Segment:

whisperx/asr.py

@@ -1,79 +1,29 @@
 import os
-import warnings
+from typing import List, Optional, Union
-from typing import List, Union
+from dataclasses import replace
 
 import ctranslate2
 import faster_whisper
 import numpy as np
 import torch
+from faster_whisper.tokenizer import Tokenizer
+from faster_whisper.transcribe import TranscriptionOptions, get_ctranslate2_storage
 from transformers import Pipeline
 from transformers.pipelines.pt_utils import PipelineIterator
 
-from .audio import N_SAMPLES, SAMPLE_RATE, load_audio, log_mel_spectrogram
+from whisperx.audio import N_SAMPLES, SAMPLE_RATE, load_audio, log_mel_spectrogram
-from .vad import load_vad_model, merge_chunks
+from whisperx.types import SingleSegment, TranscriptionResult
-
+from whisperx.vads import Vad, Silero, Pyannote
-
-def load_model(whisper_arch, device, compute_type="float16", asr_options=None, language=None,
-               vad_options=None, model=None):
-    '''Load a Whisper model for inference.
-    Args:
-        whisper_arch: str - The name of the Whisper model to load.
-        device: str - The device to load the model on.
-        compute_type: str - The compute type to use for the model.
-        options: dict - A dictionary of options to use for the model.
-        language: str - The language of the model. (use English for now)
-    Returns:
-        A Whisper pipeline.
-    '''    
-
-    if whisper_arch.endswith(".en"):
-        language = "en"
-
-    model = WhisperModel(whisper_arch, device=device, compute_type=compute_type)
-    if language is not None:
-        tokenizer = faster_whisper.tokenizer.Tokenizer(model.hf_tokenizer, model.model.is_multilingual, task="transcribe", language=language)
-    else:
-        print("No language specified, language will be first be detected for each audio file (increases inference time).")
-        tokenizer = None
-
-    default_asr_options =  {
-        "beam_size": 5,
-        "best_of": 5,
-        "patience": 1,
-        "length_penalty": 1,
-        "temperatures": [0.0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0],
-        "compression_ratio_threshold": 2.4,
-        "log_prob_threshold": -1.0,
-        "no_speech_threshold": 0.6,
-        "condition_on_previous_text": False,
-        "initial_prompt": None,
-        "prefix": None,
-        "suppress_blank": True,
-        "suppress_tokens": [-1],
-        "without_timestamps": True,
-        "max_initial_timestamp": 0.0,
-        "word_timestamps": False,
-        "prepend_punctuations": "\"'“¿([{-",
-        "append_punctuations": "\"'.。,，!！?？:：”)]}、"
-    }
-
-    if asr_options is not None:
-        default_asr_options.update(asr_options)
-    default_asr_options = faster_whisper.transcribe.TranscriptionOptions(**default_asr_options)
-
-    default_vad_options = {
-        "vad_onset": 0.500,
-        "vad_offset": 0.363
-    }
-
-    if vad_options is not None:
-        default_vad_options.update(vad_options)
-
-    vad_model = load_vad_model(torch.device(device), use_auth_token=None, **default_vad_options)
-
-    return FasterWhisperPipeline(model, vad_model, default_asr_options, tokenizer)
 
 
+def find_numeral_symbol_tokens(tokenizer):
+    numeral_symbol_tokens = []
+    for i in range(tokenizer.eot):
+        token = tokenizer.decode([i]).removeprefix(" ")
+        has_numeral_symbol = any(c in "0123456789%$£" for c in token)
+        if has_numeral_symbol:
+            numeral_symbol_tokens.append(i)
+    return numeral_symbol_tokens
 
 class WhisperModel(faster_whisper.WhisperModel):
     '''
@@ -81,7 +31,13 @@ class WhisperModel(faster_whisper.WhisperModel):
     Currently only works in non-timestamp mode and fixed prompt for all samples in batch.
     '''
 
-    def generate_segment_batched(self, features: np.ndarray, tokenizer: faster_whisper.tokenizer.Tokenizer, options: faster_whisper.transcribe.TranscriptionOptions, encoder_output = None):
+    def generate_segment_batched(
+        self,
+        features: np.ndarray,
+        tokenizer: Tokenizer,
+        options: TranscriptionOptions,
+        encoder_output=None,
+    ):
         batch_size = features.shape[0]
         all_tokens = []
         prompt_reset_since = 0
@@ -95,6 +51,7 @@ class WhisperModel(faster_whisper.WhisperModel):
             previous_tokens,
             without_timestamps=options.without_timestamps,
             prefix=options.prefix,
+            hotwords=options.hotwords
         )
 
         encoder_output = self.encode(features)
@@ -106,13 +63,12 @@ class WhisperModel(faster_whisper.WhisperModel):
         result = self.model.generate(
                 encoder_output,
                 [prompt] * batch_size,
-                # length_penalty=options.length_penalty,
+                beam_size=options.beam_size,
-                # max_length=self.max_length,
+                patience=options.patience,
-                # return_scores=True,
+                length_penalty=options.length_penalty,
-                # return_no_speech_prob=True,
+                max_length=self.max_length,
-                # suppress_blank=options.suppress_blank,
+                suppress_blank=options.suppress_blank,
-                # suppress_tokens=options.suppress_tokens,
+                suppress_tokens=options.suppress_tokens,
-                # max_initial_timestamp_index=max_initial_timestamp_index,
             )
 
         tokens_batch = [x.sequences_ids[0] for x in result]
@@ -135,7 +91,7 @@ class WhisperModel(faster_whisper.WhisperModel):
         # unsqueeze if batch size = 1
         if len(features.shape) == 2:
             features = np.expand_dims(features, 0)
-        features = faster_whisper.transcribe.get_ctranslate2_storage(features)
+        features = get_ctranslate2_storage(features)
 
         return self.model.encode(features, to_cpu=to_cpu)
 
@@ -148,18 +104,23 @@ class FasterWhisperPipeline(Pipeline):
     # - add support for custom inference kwargs
 
     def __init__(
-            self,
+        self,
-            model,
+        model: WhisperModel,
-            vad,
+        vad,
-            options,
+        vad_params: dict,
-            tokenizer=None,
+        options: TranscriptionOptions,
-            device: Union[int, str, "torch.device"] = -1,
+        tokenizer: Optional[Tokenizer] = None,
-            framework = "pt",
+        device: Union[int, str, "torch.device"] = -1,
-            **kwargs
+        framework="pt",
+        language: Optional[str] = None,
+        suppress_numerals: bool = False,
+        **kwargs,
     ):
         self.model = model
         self.tokenizer = tokenizer
         self.options = options
+        self.preset_language = language
+        self.suppress_numerals = suppress_numerals
         self._batch_size = kwargs.pop("batch_size", None)
         self._num_workers = 1
         self._preprocess_params, self._forward_params, self._postprocess_params = self._sanitize_parameters(**kwargs)
@@ -179,6 +140,7 @@ class FasterWhisperPipeline(Pipeline):
 
         super(Pipeline, self).__init__()
         self.vad_model = vad
+        self._vad_params = vad_params
 
     def _sanitize_parameters(self, **kwargs):
         preprocess_kwargs = {}
@@ -188,7 +150,12 @@ class FasterWhisperPipeline(Pipeline):
 
     def preprocess(self, audio):
         audio = audio['inputs']
-        features = log_mel_spectrogram(audio, padding=N_SAMPLES - audio.shape[0])
+        model_n_mels = self.model.feat_kwargs.get("feature_size")
+        features = log_mel_spectrogram(
+            audio,
+            n_mels=model_n_mels if model_n_mels is not None else 80,
+            padding=N_SAMPLES - audio.shape[0],
+        )
         return {'inputs': features}
 
     def _forward(self, model_inputs):
@@ -199,7 +166,13 @@ class FasterWhisperPipeline(Pipeline):
         return model_outputs
 
     def get_iterator(
-        self, inputs, num_workers: int, batch_size: int, preprocess_params, forward_params, postprocess_params
+        self,
+        inputs,
+        num_workers: int,
+        batch_size: int,
+        preprocess_params: dict,
+        forward_params: dict,
+        postprocess_params: dict,
     ):
         dataset = PipelineIterator(inputs, self.preprocess, preprocess_params)
         if "TOKENIZERS_PARALLELISM" not in os.environ:
@@ -214,8 +187,17 @@ class FasterWhisperPipeline(Pipeline):
         return final_iterator
 
     def transcribe(
-        self, audio: Union[str, np.ndarray], batch_size=None, num_workers=0
+        self,
-    ):
+        audio: Union[str, np.ndarray],
+        batch_size: Optional[int] = None,
+        num_workers=0,
+        language: Optional[str] = None,
+        task: Optional[str] = None,
+        chunk_size=30,
+        print_progress=False,
+        combined_progress=False,
+        verbose=False,
+    ) -> TranscriptionResult:
         if isinstance(audio, str):
             audio = load_audio(audio)
 
@@ -226,41 +208,87 @@ class FasterWhisperPipeline(Pipeline):
                 # print(f2-f1)
                 yield {'inputs': audio[f1:f2]}
 
-        vad_segments = self.vad_model({"waveform": torch.from_numpy(audio).unsqueeze(0), "sample_rate": SAMPLE_RATE})
+        # Pre-process audio and merge chunks as defined by the respective VAD child class 
-        vad_segments = merge_chunks(vad_segments, 30)
+        # In case vad_model is manually assigned (see 'load_model') follow the functionality of pyannote toolkit
-
+        if issubclass(type(self.vad_model), Vad):
-        del_tokenizer = False
+            waveform = self.vad_model.preprocess_audio(audio)
-        if self.tokenizer is None:
+            merge_chunks =  self.vad_model.merge_chunks
-            language = self.detect_language(audio)
-            self.tokenizer = faster_whisper.tokenizer.Tokenizer(self.model.hf_tokenizer, self.model.model.is_multilingual, task="transcribe", language=language)
-            del_tokenizer = True
         else:
-            language = self.tokenizer.language_code
+            waveform = Pyannote.preprocess_audio(audio)
+            merge_chunks = Pyannote.merge_chunks
 
-        segments = []
+        vad_segments = self.vad_model({"waveform": waveform, "sample_rate": SAMPLE_RATE})
+        vad_segments = merge_chunks(
+            vad_segments,
+            chunk_size,
+            onset=self._vad_params["vad_onset"],
+            offset=self._vad_params["vad_offset"],
+        )
+        if self.tokenizer is None:
+            language = language or self.detect_language(audio)
+            task = task or "transcribe"
+            self.tokenizer = Tokenizer(
+                self.model.hf_tokenizer,
+                self.model.model.is_multilingual,
+                task=task,
+                language=language,
+            )
+        else:
+            language = language or self.tokenizer.language_code
+            task = task or self.tokenizer.task
+            if task != self.tokenizer.task or language != self.tokenizer.language_code:
+                self.tokenizer = Tokenizer(
+                    self.model.hf_tokenizer,
+                    self.model.model.is_multilingual,
+                    task=task,
+                    language=language,
+                )
+
+        if self.suppress_numerals:
+            previous_suppress_tokens = self.options.suppress_tokens
+            numeral_symbol_tokens = find_numeral_symbol_tokens(self.tokenizer)
+            print(f"Suppressing numeral and symbol tokens")
+            new_suppressed_tokens = numeral_symbol_tokens + self.options.suppress_tokens
+            new_suppressed_tokens = list(set(new_suppressed_tokens))
+            self.options = replace(self.options, suppress_tokens=new_suppressed_tokens)
+
+        segments: List[SingleSegment] = []
         batch_size = batch_size or self._batch_size
+        total_segments = len(vad_segments)
         for idx, out in enumerate(self.__call__(data(audio, vad_segments), batch_size=batch_size, num_workers=num_workers)):
+            if print_progress:
+                base_progress = ((idx + 1) / total_segments) * 100
+                percent_complete = base_progress / 2 if combined_progress else base_progress
+                print(f"Progress: {percent_complete:.2f}%...")
             text = out['text']
             if batch_size in [0, 1, None]:
                 text = text[0]
+            if verbose:
+                print(f"Transcript: [{round(vad_segments[idx]['start'], 3)} --> {round(vad_segments[idx]['end'], 3)}] {text}")
             segments.append(
                 {
-                    "text": out['text'],
+                    "text": text,
                     "start": round(vad_segments[idx]['start'], 3),
                     "end": round(vad_segments[idx]['end'], 3)
                 }
             )
 
-        if del_tokenizer:
+        # revert the tokenizer if multilingual inference is enabled
+        if self.preset_language is None:
             self.tokenizer = None
 
+        # revert suppressed tokens if suppress_numerals is enabled
+        if self.suppress_numerals:
+            self.options = replace(self.options, suppress_tokens=previous_suppress_tokens)
+
         return {"segments": segments, "language": language}
 
-
+    def detect_language(self, audio: np.ndarray) -> str:
-    def detect_language(self, audio: np.ndarray):
         if audio.shape[0] < N_SAMPLES:
             print("Warning: audio is shorter than 30s, language detection may be inaccurate.")
+        model_n_mels = self.model.feat_kwargs.get("feature_size")
         segment = log_mel_spectrogram(audio[: N_SAMPLES],
+                                      n_mels=model_n_mels if model_n_mels is not None else 80,
                                       padding=0 if audio.shape[0] >= N_SAMPLES else N_SAMPLES - audio.shape[0])
         encoder_output = self.model.encode(segment)
         results = self.model.model.detect_language(encoder_output)
@@ -268,3 +296,121 @@ class FasterWhisperPipeline(Pipeline):
         language = language_token[2:-2]
         print(f"Detected language: {language} ({language_probability:.2f}) in first 30s of audio...")
         return language
+
+
+def load_model(
+    whisper_arch: str,
+    device: str,
+    device_index=0,
+    compute_type="float16",
+    asr_options: Optional[dict] = None,
+    language: Optional[str] = None,
+    vad_model: Optional[Vad]= None,
+    vad_method: Optional[str] = "pyannote",
+    vad_options: Optional[dict] = None,
+    model: Optional[WhisperModel] = None,
+    task="transcribe",
+    download_root: Optional[str] = None,
+    local_files_only=False,
+    threads=4,
+) -> FasterWhisperPipeline:
+    """Load a Whisper model for inference.
+    Args:
+        whisper_arch - The name of the Whisper model to load.
+        device - The device to load the model on.
+        compute_type - The compute type to use for the model.
+        vad_method - The vad method to use. vad_model has higher priority if is not None.
+        options - A dictionary of options to use for the model.
+        language - The language of the model. (use English for now)
+        model - The WhisperModel instance to use.
+        download_root - The root directory to download the model to.
+        local_files_only - If `True`, avoid downloading the file and return the path to the local cached file if it exists.
+        threads - The number of cpu threads to use per worker, e.g. will be multiplied by num workers.
+    Returns:
+        A Whisper pipeline.
+    """
+
+    if whisper_arch.endswith(".en"):
+        language = "en"
+
+    model = model or WhisperModel(whisper_arch,
+                         device=device,
+                         device_index=device_index,
+                         compute_type=compute_type,
+                         download_root=download_root,
+                         local_files_only=local_files_only,
+                         cpu_threads=threads)
+    if language is not None:
+        tokenizer = Tokenizer(model.hf_tokenizer, model.model.is_multilingual, task=task, language=language)
+    else:
+        print("No language specified, language will be first be detected for each audio file (increases inference time).")
+        tokenizer = None
+
+    default_asr_options =  {
+        "beam_size": 5,
+        "best_of": 5,
+        "patience": 1,
+        "length_penalty": 1,
+        "repetition_penalty": 1,
+        "no_repeat_ngram_size": 0,
+        "temperatures": [0.0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0],
+        "compression_ratio_threshold": 2.4,
+        "log_prob_threshold": -1.0,
+        "no_speech_threshold": 0.6,
+        "condition_on_previous_text": False,
+        "prompt_reset_on_temperature": 0.5,
+        "initial_prompt": None,
+        "prefix": None,
+        "suppress_blank": True,
+        "suppress_tokens": [-1],
+        "without_timestamps": True,
+        "max_initial_timestamp": 0.0,
+        "word_timestamps": False,
+        "prepend_punctuations": "\"'“¿([{-",
+        "append_punctuations": "\"'.。,，!！?？:：”)]}、",
+        "multilingual": model.model.is_multilingual,
+        "suppress_numerals": False,
+        "max_new_tokens": None,
+        "clip_timestamps": None,
+        "hallucination_silence_threshold": None,
+        "hotwords": None,
+    }
+
+    if asr_options is not None:
+        default_asr_options.update(asr_options)
+
+    suppress_numerals = default_asr_options["suppress_numerals"]
+    del default_asr_options["suppress_numerals"]
+
+    default_asr_options = TranscriptionOptions(**default_asr_options)
+
+    default_vad_options = {
+        "chunk_size": 30, # needed by silero since binarization happens before merge_chunks
+        "vad_onset": 0.500,
+        "vad_offset": 0.363
+    }
+
+    if vad_options is not None:
+        default_vad_options.update(vad_options)
+
+    # Note: manually assigned vad_model has higher priority than vad_method!
+    if vad_model is not None:
+        print("Use manually assigned vad_model. vad_method is ignored.")
+        vad_model = vad_model
+    else:
+        if vad_method == "silero":
+            vad_model = Silero(**default_vad_options)
+        elif vad_method == "pyannote":
+            vad_model = Pyannote(torch.device(device), use_auth_token=None, **default_vad_options)
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(f"Invalid vad_method: {vad_method}")
+
+    return FasterWhisperPipeline(
+        model=model,
+        vad=vad_model,
+        options=default_asr_options,
+        tokenizer=tokenizer,
+        language=language,
+        suppress_numerals=suppress_numerals,
+        vad_params=default_vad_options,
+    )

whisperx/audio.py

@@ -1,18 +1,17 @@
 import os
+import subprocess
 from functools import lru_cache
 from typing import Optional, Union
 
-import ffmpeg
 import numpy as np
 import torch
 import torch.nn.functional as F
 
-from .utils import exact_div
+from whisperx.utils import exact_div
 
 # hard-coded audio hyperparameters
 SAMPLE_RATE = 16000
 N_FFT = 400
-N_MELS = 80
 HOP_LENGTH = 160
 CHUNK_LENGTH = 30
 N_SAMPLES = CHUNK_LENGTH * SAMPLE_RATE  # 480000 samples in a 30-second chunk
@@ -23,7 +22,7 @@ FRAMES_PER_SECOND = exact_div(SAMPLE_RATE, HOP_LENGTH)  # 10ms per audio frame
 TOKENS_PER_SECOND = exact_div(SAMPLE_RATE, N_SAMPLES_PER_TOKEN)  # 20ms per audio token
 
 
-def load_audio(file: str, sr: int = SAMPLE_RATE):
+def load_audio(file: str, sr: int = SAMPLE_RATE) -> np.ndarray:
     """
     Open an audio file and read as mono waveform, resampling as necessary
 
@@ -40,14 +39,27 @@ def load_audio(file: str, sr: int = SAMPLE_RATE):
     A NumPy array containing the audio waveform, in float32 dtype.
     """
     try:
-        # This launches a subprocess to decode audio while down-mixing and resampling as necessary.
+        # Launches a subprocess to decode audio while down-mixing and resampling as necessary.
-        # Requires the ffmpeg CLI and `ffmpeg-python` package to be installed.
+        # Requires the ffmpeg CLI to be installed.
-        out, _ = (
+        cmd = [
-            ffmpeg.input(file, threads=0)
+            "ffmpeg",
-            .output("-", format="s16le", acodec="pcm_s16le", ac=1, ar=sr)
+            "-nostdin",
-            .run(cmd=["ffmpeg", "-nostdin"], capture_stdout=True, capture_stderr=True)
+            "-threads",
-        )
+            "0",
-    except ffmpeg.Error as e:
+            "-i",
+            file,
+            "-f",
+            "s16le",
+            "-ac",
+            "1",
+            "-acodec",
+            "pcm_s16le",
+            "-ar",
+            str(sr),
+            "-",
+        ]
+        out = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, check=True).stdout
+    except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
         raise RuntimeError(f"Failed to load audio: {e.stderr.decode()}") from e
 
     return np.frombuffer(out, np.int16).flatten().astype(np.float32) / 32768.0
@@ -80,7 +92,7 @@ def pad_or_trim(array, length: int = N_SAMPLES, *, axis: int = -1):
 
 
 @lru_cache(maxsize=None)
-def mel_filters(device, n_mels: int = N_MELS) -> torch.Tensor:
+def mel_filters(device, n_mels: int) -> torch.Tensor:
     """
     load the mel filterbank matrix for projecting STFT into a Mel spectrogram.
     Allows decoupling librosa dependency; saved using:
@@ -90,7 +102,7 @@ def mel_filters(device, n_mels: int = N_MELS) -> torch.Tensor:
             mel_80=librosa.filters.mel(sr=16000, n_fft=400, n_mels=80),
         )
     """
-    assert n_mels == 80, f"Unsupported n_mels: {n_mels}"
+    assert n_mels in [80, 128], f"Unsupported n_mels: {n_mels}"
     with np.load(
         os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "assets", "mel_filters.npz")
     ) as f:
@@ -99,7 +111,7 @@ def mel_filters(device, n_mels: int = N_MELS) -> torch.Tensor:
 
 def log_mel_spectrogram(
     audio: Union[str, np.ndarray, torch.Tensor],
-    n_mels: int = N_MELS,
+    n_mels: int,
     padding: int = 0,
     device: Optional[Union[str, torch.device]] = None,
 ):

whisperx/conjunctions.py

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+# conjunctions.py
+
+from typing import Set
+
+
+conjunctions_by_language = {
+    'en': {'and', 'whether', 'or', 'as', 'but', 'so', 'for', 'nor', 'which', 'yet', 'although', 'since', 'unless', 'when', 'while', 'because', 'if', 'how', 'that', 'than', 'who', 'where', 'what', 'near', 'before', 'after', 'across', 'through', 'until', 'once', 'whereas', 'even', 'both', 'either', 'neither', 'though'},
+    'fr': {'et', 'ou', 'mais', 'parce', 'bien', 'pendant', 'quand', 'où', 'comme', 'si', 'que', 'avant', 'après', 'aussitôt', 'jusqu’à', 'à', 'malgré', 'donc', 'tant', 'puisque', 'ni', 'soit', 'bien', 'encore', 'dès', 'lorsque'},
+    'de': {'und', 'oder', 'aber', 'weil', 'obwohl', 'während', 'wenn', 'wo', 'wie', 'dass', 'bevor', 'nachdem', 'sobald', 'bis', 'außer', 'trotzdem', 'also', 'sowie', 'indem', 'weder', 'sowohl', 'zwar', 'jedoch'},
+    'es': {'y', 'o', 'pero', 'porque', 'aunque', 'sin', 'mientras', 'cuando', 'donde', 'como', 'si', 'que', 'antes', 'después', 'tan', 'hasta', 'a', 'a', 'por', 'ya', 'ni', 'sino'},
+    'it': {'e', 'o', 'ma', 'perché', 'anche', 'mentre', 'quando', 'dove', 'come', 'se', 'che', 'prima', 'dopo', 'appena', 'fino', 'a', 'nonostante', 'quindi', 'poiché', 'né', 'ossia', 'cioè'},
+    'ja': {'そして', 'または', 'しかし', 'なぜなら', 'もし', 'それとも', 'だから', 'それに', 'なのに', 'そのため', 'かつ', 'それゆえに', 'ならば', 'もしくは', 'ため'},
+    'zh': {'和', '或', '但是', '因为', '任何', '也', '虽然', '而且', '所以', '如果', '除非', '尽管', '既然', '即使', '只要', '直到', '然后', '因此', '不但', '而是', '不过'},
+    'nl': {'en', 'of', 'maar', 'omdat', 'hoewel', 'terwijl', 'wanneer', 'waar', 'zoals', 'als', 'dat', 'voordat', 'nadat', 'zodra', 'totdat', 'tenzij', 'ondanks', 'dus', 'zowel', 'noch', 'echter', 'toch'},
+    'uk': {'та', 'або', 'але', 'тому', 'хоча', 'поки', 'бо', 'коли', 'де', 'як', 'якщо', 'що', 'перш', 'після', 'доки', 'незважаючи', 'тому', 'ані'},
+    'pt': {'e', 'ou', 'mas', 'porque', 'embora', 'enquanto', 'quando', 'onde', 'como', 'se', 'que', 'antes', 'depois', 'assim', 'até', 'a', 'apesar', 'portanto', 'já', 'pois', 'nem', 'senão'},
+    'ar': {'و', 'أو', 'لكن', 'لأن', 'مع', 'بينما', 'عندما', 'حيث', 'كما', 'إذا', 'الذي', 'قبل', 'بعد', 'فور', 'حتى', 'إلا', 'رغم', 'لذلك', 'بما'},
+    'cs': {'a', 'nebo', 'ale', 'protože', 'ačkoli', 'zatímco', 'když', 'kde', 'jako', 'pokud', 'že', 'než', 'poté', 'jakmile', 'dokud', 'pokud ne', 'navzdory', 'tak', 'stejně', 'ani', 'tudíž'},
+    'ru': {'и', 'или', 'но', 'потому', 'хотя', 'пока', 'когда', 'где', 'как', 'если', 'что', 'перед', 'после', 'несмотря', 'таким', 'также', 'ни', 'зато'},
+    'pl': {'i', 'lub', 'ale', 'ponieważ', 'chociaż', 'podczas', 'kiedy', 'gdzie', 'jak', 'jeśli', 'że', 'zanim', 'po', 'jak tylko', 'dopóki', 'chyba', 'pomimo', 'więc', 'tak', 'ani', 'czyli'},
+    'hu': {'és', 'vagy', 'de', 'mert', 'habár', 'míg', 'amikor', 'ahol', 'ahogy', 'ha', 'hogy', 'mielőtt', 'miután', 'amint', 'amíg', 'hacsak', 'ellenére', 'tehát', 'úgy', 'sem', 'vagyis'},
+    'fi': {'ja', 'tai', 'mutta', 'koska', 'vaikka', 'kun', 'missä', 'kuten', 'jos', 'että', 'ennen', 'sen jälkeen', 'heti', 'kunnes', 'ellei', 'huolimatta', 'siis', 'sekä', 'eikä', 'vaan'},
+    'fa': {'و', 'یا', 'اما', 'چون', 'اگرچه', 'در حالی', 'وقتی', 'کجا', 'چگونه', 'اگر', 'که', 'قبل', 'پس', 'به محض', 'تا زمانی', 'مگر', 'با وجود', 'پس', 'همچنین', 'نه'},
+    'el': {'και', 'ή', 'αλλά', 'επειδή', 'αν', 'ενώ', 'όταν', 'όπου', 'όπως', 'αν', 'που', 'προτού', 'αφού', 'μόλις', 'μέχρι', 'εκτός', 'παρά', 'έτσι', 'όπως', 'ούτε', 'δηλαδή'},
+    'tr': {'ve', 'veya', 'ama', 'çünkü', 'her ne', 'iken', 'nerede', 'nasıl', 'eğer', 'ki', 'önce', 'sonra', 'hemen', 'kadar', 'rağmen', 'hem', 'ne', 'yani'},
+    'da': {'og', 'eller', 'men', 'fordi', 'selvom', 'mens', 'når', 'hvor', 'som', 'hvis', 'at', 'før', 'efter', 'indtil', 'medmindre', 'således', 'ligesom', 'hverken', 'altså'},
+    'he': {'ו', 'או', 'אבל', 'כי', 'אף', 'בזמן', 'כאשר', 'היכן', 'כיצד', 'אם', 'ש', 'לפני', 'אחרי', 'ברגע', 'עד', 'אלא', 'למרות', 'לכן', 'כמו', 'לא', 'אז'},
+    'vi': {'và', 'hoặc', 'nhưng', 'bởi', 'mặc', 'trong', 'khi', 'ở', 'như', 'nếu', 'rằng', 'trước', 'sau', 'ngay', 'cho', 'trừ', 'mặc', 'vì', 'giống', 'cũng', 'tức'},
+    'ko': {'그리고', '또는','그런데','그래도', '이나', '결국', '마지막으로', '마찬가지로', '반면에', '아니면', '거나', '또는', '그럼에도', '그렇기', '때문에', '덧붙이자면', '게다가', '그러나',  '고', '그래서', '랑', '한다면', '하지만', '무엇', '왜냐하면', '비록', '동안', '언제', '어디서', '어떻게', '만약', '그', '전에', '후에', '즉시', '까지', '아니라면', '불구하고', '따라서', '같은', '도'},
+    'ur': {'اور', 'یا', 'مگر', 'کیونکہ', 'اگرچہ', 'جبکہ', 'جب', 'کہاں', 'کس طرح', 'اگر', 'کہ', 'سے پہلے', 'کے بعد', 'جیسے ہی', 'تک', 'اگر نہیں تو', 'کے باوجود', 'اس لئے', 'جیسے', 'نہ'},
+    'hi': {'और', 'या', 'पर', 'तो', 'न', 'फिर', 'हालांकि', 'चूंकि', 'अगर', 'कैसे', 'वह', 'से', 'जो', 'जहां', 'क्या', 'नजदीक', 'पहले', 'बाद', 'के', 'पार', 'माध्यम', 'तक', 'एक', 'जबकि', 'यहां', 'तक', 'दोनों', 'या', 'न', 'हालांकि'}
+
+}
+
+commas_by_language = {
+    'ja': '、', 
+    'zh': '，',
+    'fa': '،', 
+    'ur': '،'  
+}
+
+def get_conjunctions(lang_code: str) -> Set[str]:
+    return conjunctions_by_language.get(lang_code, set())
+
+
+def get_comma(lang_code: str) -> str:
+    return commas_by_language.get(lang_code, ",")

whisperx/diarize.py

@@ -4,10 +4,14 @@ from pyannote.audio import Pipeline
 from typing import Optional, Union
 import torch
 
+from whisperx.audio import load_audio, SAMPLE_RATE
+from whisperx.types import TranscriptionResult, AlignedTranscriptionResult
+
+
 class DiarizationPipeline:
     def __init__(
         self,
-        model_name="pyannote/speaker-diarization@2.1",
+        model_name="pyannote/speaker-diarization-3.1",
         use_auth_token=None,
         device: Optional[Union[str, torch.device]] = "cpu",
     ):
@@ -15,16 +19,31 @@ class DiarizationPipeline:
             device = torch.device(device)
         self.model = Pipeline.from_pretrained(model_name, use_auth_token=use_auth_token).to(device)
 
-    def __call__(self, audio, min_speakers=None, max_speakers=None):
+    def __call__(
-        segments = self.model(audio, min_speakers=min_speakers, max_speakers=max_speakers)
+        self,
-        diarize_df = pd.DataFrame(segments.itertracks(yield_label=True))
+        audio: Union[str, np.ndarray],
-        diarize_df['start'] = diarize_df[0].apply(lambda x: x.start)
+        num_speakers: Optional[int] = None,
-        diarize_df['end'] = diarize_df[0].apply(lambda x: x.end)
+        min_speakers: Optional[int] = None,
-        diarize_df.rename(columns={2: "speaker"}, inplace=True)
+        max_speakers: Optional[int] = None,
+    ):
+        if isinstance(audio, str):
+            audio = load_audio(audio)
+        audio_data = {
+            'waveform': torch.from_numpy(audio[None, :]),
+            'sample_rate': SAMPLE_RATE
+        }
+        segments = self.model(audio_data, num_speakers = num_speakers, min_speakers=min_speakers, max_speakers=max_speakers)
+        diarize_df = pd.DataFrame(segments.itertracks(yield_label=True), columns=['segment', 'label', 'speaker'])
+        diarize_df['start'] = diarize_df['segment'].apply(lambda x: x.start)
+        diarize_df['end'] = diarize_df['segment'].apply(lambda x: x.end)
         return diarize_df
 
 
-def assign_word_speakers(diarize_df, transcript_result, fill_nearest=False):
+def assign_word_speakers(
+    diarize_df: pd.DataFrame,
+    transcript_result: Union[AlignedTranscriptionResult, TranscriptionResult],
+    fill_nearest=False,
+) -> dict:
     transcript_segments = transcript_result["segments"]
     for seg in transcript_segments:
         # assign speaker to segment (if any)
@@ -60,7 +79,7 @@ def assign_word_speakers(diarize_df, transcript_result, fill_nearest=False):
 
 
 class Segment:
-    def __init__(self, start, end, speaker=None):
+    def __init__(self, start:int, end:int, speaker:Optional[str]=None):
         self.start = start
         self.end = end
         self.speaker = speaker

whisperx/transcribe.py

@@ -1,17 +1,27 @@
 import argparse
 import gc
 import os
+import sys
 import warnings
+import importlib.metadata
+import platform
 
 import numpy as np
 import torch
 
-from .alignment import align, load_align_model
+from whisperx.alignment import align, load_align_model
-from .asr import load_model
+from whisperx.asr import load_model
-from .audio import load_audio
+from whisperx.audio import load_audio
-from .diarize import DiarizationPipeline, assign_word_speakers
+from whisperx.diarize import DiarizationPipeline, assign_word_speakers
-from .utils import (LANGUAGES, TO_LANGUAGE_CODE, get_writer, optional_float,
+from whisperx.types import AlignedTranscriptionResult, TranscriptionResult
-                    optional_int, str2bool)
+from whisperx.utils import (
+    LANGUAGES,
+    TO_LANGUAGE_CODE,
+    get_writer,
+    optional_float,
+    optional_int,
+    str2bool,
+)
 
 
 def cli():
@@ -19,13 +29,15 @@ def cli():
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(formatter_class=argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter)
     parser.add_argument("audio", nargs="+", type=str, help="audio file(s) to transcribe")
     parser.add_argument("--model", default="small", help="name of the Whisper model to use")
+    parser.add_argument("--model_cache_only", type=str2bool, default=False, help="If True, will not attempt to download models, instead using cached models from --model_dir")
     parser.add_argument("--model_dir", type=str, default=None, help="the path to save model files; uses ~/.cache/whisper by default")
     parser.add_argument("--device", default="cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu", help="device to use for PyTorch inference")
-    parser.add_argument("--batch_size", default=8, type=int, help="device to use for PyTorch inference")
+    parser.add_argument("--device_index", default=0, type=int, help="device index to use for FasterWhisper inference")
+    parser.add_argument("--batch_size", default=8, type=int, help="the preferred batch size for inference")
     parser.add_argument("--compute_type", default="float16", type=str, choices=["float16", "float32", "int8"], help="compute type for computation")
 
     parser.add_argument("--output_dir", "-o", type=str, default=".", help="directory to save the outputs")
-    parser.add_argument("--output_format", "-f", type=str, default="all", choices=["all", "srt", "vtt", "txt", "tsv", "json"], help="format of the output file; if not specified, all available formats will be produced")
+    parser.add_argument("--output_format", "-f", type=str, default="all", choices=["all", "srt", "vtt", "txt", "tsv", "json", "aud"], help="format of the output file; if not specified, all available formats will be produced")
     parser.add_argument("--verbose", type=str2bool, default=True, help="whether to print out the progress and debug messages")
 
     parser.add_argument("--task", type=str, default="transcribe", choices=["transcribe", "translate"], help="whether to perform X->X speech recognition ('transcribe') or X->English translation ('translate')")
@@ -38,8 +50,10 @@ def cli():
     parser.add_argument("--return_char_alignments", action='store_true', help="Return character-level alignments in the output json file")
 
     # vad params
+    parser.add_argument("--vad_method", type=str, default="pyannote", choices=["pyannote", "silero"], help="VAD method to be used")
     parser.add_argument("--vad_onset", type=float, default=0.500, help="Onset threshold for VAD (see pyannote.audio), reduce this if speech is not being detected")
     parser.add_argument("--vad_offset", type=float, default=0.363, help="Offset threshold for VAD (see pyannote.audio), reduce this if speech is not being detected.")
+    parser.add_argument("--chunk_size", type=int, default=30, help="Chunk size for merging VAD segments. Default is 30, reduce this if the chunk is too long.")
 
     # diarization params
     parser.add_argument("--diarize", action="store_true", help="Apply diarization to assign speaker labels to each segment/word")
@@ -49,10 +63,12 @@ def cli():
     parser.add_argument("--temperature", type=float, default=0, help="temperature to use for sampling")
     parser.add_argument("--best_of", type=optional_int, default=5, help="number of candidates when sampling with non-zero temperature")
     parser.add_argument("--beam_size", type=optional_int, default=5, help="number of beams in beam search, only applicable when temperature is zero")
-    parser.add_argument("--patience", type=float, default=None, help="optional patience value to use in beam decoding, as in https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05424, the default (1.0) is equivalent to conventional beam search")
+    parser.add_argument("--patience", type=float, default=1.0, help="optional patience value to use in beam decoding, as in https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05424, the default (1.0) is equivalent to conventional beam search")
-    parser.add_argument("--length_penalty", type=float, default=None, help="optional token length penalty coefficient (alpha) as in https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08144, uses simple length normalization by default")
+    parser.add_argument("--length_penalty", type=float, default=1.0, help="optional token length penalty coefficient (alpha) as in https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08144, uses simple length normalization by default")
 
     parser.add_argument("--suppress_tokens", type=str, default="-1", help="comma-separated list of token ids to suppress during sampling; '-1' will suppress most special characters except common punctuations")
+    parser.add_argument("--suppress_numerals", action="store_true", help="whether to suppress numeric symbols and currency symbols during sampling, since wav2vec2 cannot align them correctly")
+
     parser.add_argument("--initial_prompt", type=str, default=None, help="optional text to provide as a prompt for the first window.")
     parser.add_argument("--condition_on_previous_text", type=str2bool, default=False, help="if True, provide the previous output of the model as a prompt for the next window; disabling may make the text inconsistent across windows, but the model becomes less prone to getting stuck in a failure loop")
     parser.add_argument("--fp16", type=str2bool, default=True, help="whether to perform inference in fp16; True by default")
@@ -63,22 +79,30 @@ def cli():
     parser.add_argument("--no_speech_threshold", type=optional_float, default=0.6, help="if the probability of the <|nospeech|> token is higher than this value AND the decoding has failed due to `logprob_threshold`, consider the segment as silence")
 
     parser.add_argument("--max_line_width", type=optional_int, default=None, help="(not possible with --no_align) the maximum number of characters in a line before breaking the line")
-    parser.add_argument("--max_line_count", type=optional_int, default=None, help="(requires --no_align) the maximum number of lines in a segment")
+    parser.add_argument("--max_line_count", type=optional_int, default=None, help="(not possible with --no_align) the maximum number of lines in a segment")
-    parser.add_argument("--highlight_words", type=str2bool, default=False, help="(requires --word_timestamps True) underline each word as it is spoken in srt and vtt")
+    parser.add_argument("--highlight_words", type=str2bool, default=False, help="(not possible with --no_align) underline each word as it is spoken in srt and vtt")
     parser.add_argument("--segment_resolution", type=str, default="sentence", choices=["sentence", "chunk"], help="(not possible with --no_align) the maximum number of characters in a line before breaking the line")
 
     parser.add_argument("--threads", type=optional_int, default=0, help="number of threads used by torch for CPU inference; supercedes MKL_NUM_THREADS/OMP_NUM_THREADS")
 
     parser.add_argument("--hf_token", type=str, default=None, help="Hugging Face Access Token to access PyAnnote gated models")
+
+    parser.add_argument("--print_progress", type=str2bool, default = False, help = "if True, progress will be printed in transcribe() and align() methods.")
+    parser.add_argument("--version", "-V", action="version", version=f"%(prog)s {importlib.metadata.version('whisperx')}",help="Show whisperx version information and exit")
+    parser.add_argument("--python-version", "-P", action="version", version=f"Python {platform.python_version()} ({platform.python_implementation()})",help="Show python version information and exit")
     # fmt: on
 
     args = parser.parse_args().__dict__
     model_name: str = args.pop("model")
     batch_size: int = args.pop("batch_size")
+    model_dir: str = args.pop("model_dir")
+    model_cache_only: bool = args.pop("model_cache_only")
     output_dir: str = args.pop("output_dir")
     output_format: str = args.pop("output_format")
     device: str = args.pop("device")
+    device_index: int = args.pop("device_index")
     compute_type: str = args.pop("compute_type")
+    verbose: bool = args.pop("verbose")
 
     # model_flush: bool = args.pop("model_flush")
     os.makedirs(output_dir, exist_ok=True)
@@ -86,23 +110,42 @@ def cli():
     align_model: str = args.pop("align_model")
     interpolate_method: str = args.pop("interpolate_method")
     no_align: bool = args.pop("no_align")
+    task: str = args.pop("task")
+    if task == "translate":
+        # translation cannot be aligned
+        no_align = True
+
     return_char_alignments: bool = args.pop("return_char_alignments")
 
     hf_token: str = args.pop("hf_token")
+    vad_method: str = args.pop("vad_method")
     vad_onset: float = args.pop("vad_onset")
     vad_offset: float = args.pop("vad_offset")
 
+    chunk_size: int = args.pop("chunk_size")
+
     diarize: bool = args.pop("diarize")
     min_speakers: int = args.pop("min_speakers")
     max_speakers: int = args.pop("max_speakers")
+    print_progress: bool = args.pop("print_progress")
 
+    if args["language"] is not None:
+        args["language"] = args["language"].lower()
+        if args["language"] not in LANGUAGES:
+            if args["language"] in TO_LANGUAGE_CODE:
+                args["language"] = TO_LANGUAGE_CODE[args["language"]]
+            else:
+                raise ValueError(f"Unsupported language: {args['language']}")
 
-    if model_name.endswith(".en") and args["language"] not in {"en", "English"}:
+    if model_name.endswith(".en") and args["language"] != "en":
         if args["language"] is not None:
             warnings.warn(
-                f"{model_name} is an English-only model but receipted '{args['language']}'; using English instead."
+                f"{model_name} is an English-only model but received '{args['language']}'; using English instead."
             )
         args["language"] = "en"
+    align_language = (
+        args["language"] if args["language"] is not None else "en"
+    )  # default to loading english if not specified
 
     temperature = args.pop("temperature")
     if (increment := args.pop("temperature_increment_on_fallback")) is not None:
@@ -110,8 +153,10 @@ def cli():
     else:
         temperature = [temperature]
 
+    faster_whisper_threads = 4
     if (threads := args.pop("threads")) > 0:
         torch.set_num_threads(threads)
+        faster_whisper_threads = threads
 
     asr_options = {
         "beam_size": args.pop("beam_size"),
@@ -123,6 +168,8 @@ def cli():
         "no_speech_threshold": args.pop("no_speech_threshold"),
         "condition_on_previous_text": False,
         "initial_prompt": args.pop("initial_prompt"),
+        "suppress_tokens": [int(x) for x in args.pop("suppress_tokens").split(",")],
+        "suppress_numerals": args.pop("suppress_numerals"),
     }
 
     writer = get_writer(output_format, output_dir)
@@ -130,7 +177,7 @@ def cli():
     if no_align:
         for option in word_options:
             if args[option]:
-                parser.error(f"--{option} requires --word_timestamps True")
+                parser.error(f"--{option} not possible with --no_align")
     if args["max_line_count"] and not args["max_line_width"]:
         warnings.warn("--max_line_count has no effect without --max_line_width")
     writer_args = {arg: args.pop(arg) for arg in word_options}
@@ -139,13 +186,36 @@ def cli():
     results = []
     tmp_results = []
     # model = load_model(model_name, device=device, download_root=model_dir)
-    model = load_model(model_name, device=device, compute_type=compute_type, language=args['language'], asr_options=asr_options, vad_options={"vad_onset": vad_onset, "vad_offset": vad_offset},)
+    model = load_model(
+        model_name,
+        device=device,
+        device_index=device_index,
+        download_root=model_dir,
+        compute_type=compute_type,
+        language=args["language"],
+        asr_options=asr_options,
+        vad_method=vad_method,
+        vad_options={
+            "chunk_size": chunk_size,
+            "vad_onset": vad_onset,
+            "vad_offset": vad_offset,
+        },
+        task=task,
+        local_files_only=model_cache_only,
+        threads=faster_whisper_threads,
+    )
 
     for audio_path in args.pop("audio"):
         audio = load_audio(audio_path)
         # >> VAD & ASR
         print(">>Performing transcription...")
-        result = model.transcribe(audio, batch_size=batch_size)
+        result: TranscriptionResult = model.transcribe(
+            audio,
+            batch_size=batch_size,
+            chunk_size=chunk_size,
+            print_progress=print_progress,
+            verbose=verbose,
+        )
         results.append((result, audio_path))
 
     # Unload Whisper and VAD
@@ -157,8 +227,9 @@ def cli():
     if not no_align:
         tmp_results = results
         results = []
-        align_language = args["language"] if args["language"] is not None else "en" # default to loading english if not specified
+        align_model, align_metadata = load_align_model(
-        align_model, align_metadata = load_align_model(align_language, device, model_name=align_model)
+            align_language, device, model_name=align_model
+        )
         for result, audio_path in tmp_results:
             # >> Align
             if len(tmp_results) > 1:
@@ -170,10 +241,23 @@ def cli():
             if align_model is not None and len(result["segments"]) > 0:
                 if result.get("language", "en") != align_metadata["language"]:
                     # load new language
-                    print(f"New language found ({result['language']})! Previous was ({align_metadata['language']}), loading new alignment model for new language...")
+                    print(
-                    align_model, align_metadata = load_align_model(result["language"], device)
+                        f"New language found ({result['language']})! Previous was ({align_metadata['language']}), loading new alignment model for new language..."
+                    )
+                    align_model, align_metadata = load_align_model(
+                        result["language"], device
+                    )
                 print(">>Performing alignment...")
-                result = align(result["segments"], align_model, align_metadata, input_audio, device, interpolate_method=interpolate_method, return_char_alignments=return_char_alignments)
+                result: AlignedTranscriptionResult = align(
+                    result["segments"],
+                    align_model,
+                    align_metadata,
+                    input_audio,
+                    device,
+                    interpolate_method=interpolate_method,
+                    return_char_alignments=return_char_alignments,
+                    print_progress=print_progress,
+                )
 
             results.append((result, audio_path))
 
@@ -185,18 +269,24 @@ def cli():
     # >> Diarize
     if diarize:
         if hf_token is None:
-            print("Warning, no --hf_token used, needs to be saved in environment variable, otherwise will throw error loading diarization model...")
+            print(
+                "Warning, no --hf_token used, needs to be saved in environment variable, otherwise will throw error loading diarization model..."
+            )
         tmp_results = results
         print(">>Performing diarization...")
         results = []
         diarize_model = DiarizationPipeline(use_auth_token=hf_token, device=device)
         for result, input_audio_path in tmp_results:
-            diarize_segments = diarize_model(input_audio_path, min_speakers=min_speakers, max_speakers=max_speakers)
+            diarize_segments = diarize_model(
+                input_audio_path, min_speakers=min_speakers, max_speakers=max_speakers
+            )
             result = assign_word_speakers(diarize_segments, result)
             results.append((result, input_audio_path))
     # >> Write
     for result, audio_path in results:
+        result["language"] = align_language
         writer(result, audio_path, writer_args)
 
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     cli()

whisperx/types.py

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+from typing import TypedDict, Optional, List, Tuple
+
+
+class SingleWordSegment(TypedDict):
+    """
+    A single word of a speech.
+    """
+    word: str
+    start: float
+    end: float
+    score: float
+
+class SingleCharSegment(TypedDict):
+    """
+    A single char of a speech.
+    """
+    char: str
+    start: float
+    end: float
+    score: float
+
+
+class SingleSegment(TypedDict):
+    """
+    A single segment (up to multiple sentences) of a speech.
+    """
+
+    start: float
+    end: float
+    text: str
+
+
+class SegmentData(TypedDict):
+    """
+    Temporary processing data used during alignment.
+    Contains cleaned and preprocessed data for each segment.
+    """
+    clean_char: List[str]  # Cleaned characters that exist in model dictionary
+    clean_cdx: List[int]   # Original indices of cleaned characters
+    clean_wdx: List[int]   # Indices of words containing valid characters
+    sentence_spans: List[Tuple[int, int]]  # Start and end indices of sentences
+
+
+class SingleAlignedSegment(TypedDict):
+    """
+    A single segment (up to multiple sentences) of a speech with word alignment.
+    """
+
+    start: float
+    end: float
+    text: str
+    words: List[SingleWordSegment]
+    chars: Optional[List[SingleCharSegment]]
+
+
+class TranscriptionResult(TypedDict):
+    """
+    A list of segments and word segments of a speech.
+    """
+    segments: List[SingleSegment]
+    language: str
+
+
+class AlignedTranscriptionResult(TypedDict):
+    """
+    A list of segments and word segments of a speech.
+    """
+    segments: List[SingleAlignedSegment]
+    word_segments: List[SingleWordSegment]

whisperx/utils.py

@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ LANGUAGES = {
     "ba": "bashkir",
     "jw": "javanese",
     "su": "sundanese",
+    "yue": "cantonese",
 }
 
 # language code lookup by name, with a few language aliases
@@ -123,6 +124,7 @@ TO_LANGUAGE_CODE = {
     "castilian": "es",
 }
 
+LANGUAGES_WITHOUT_SPACES = ["ja", "zh"]
 
 system_encoding = sys.getdefaultencoding()
 
@@ -212,7 +214,12 @@ class WriteTXT(ResultWriter):
 
     def write_result(self, result: dict, file: TextIO, options: dict):
         for segment in result["segments"]:
-            print(segment["text"].strip(), file=file, flush=True)
+            speaker = segment.get("speaker")
+            text = segment["text"].strip()
+            if speaker is not None:
+                print(f"[{speaker}]: {text}", file=file, flush=True)
+            else:
+                print(text, file=file, flush=True)
 
 
 class SubtitlesWriter(ResultWriter):
@@ -226,12 +233,15 @@ class SubtitlesWriter(ResultWriter):
         max_line_width = 1000 if raw_max_line_width is None else raw_max_line_width
         preserve_segments = max_line_count is None or raw_max_line_width is None
 
+        if len(result["segments"]) == 0:
+            return
+
         def iterate_subtitles():
             line_len = 0
             line_count = 1
             # the next subtitle to yield (a list of word timings with whitespace)
             subtitle: list[dict] = []
-            times = []
+            times: list[tuple] = []
             last = result["segments"][0]["start"]
             for segment in result["segments"]:
                 for i, original_timing in enumerate(segment["words"]):
@@ -277,7 +287,10 @@ class SubtitlesWriter(ResultWriter):
                 sstart, ssend, speaker = _[0]
                 subtitle_start = self.format_timestamp(sstart)
                 subtitle_end = self.format_timestamp(ssend)
-                subtitle_text = " ".join([word["word"] for word in subtitle])
+                if result["language"] in LANGUAGES_WITHOUT_SPACES:
+                    subtitle_text = "".join([word["word"] for word in subtitle])
+                else:
+                    subtitle_text = " ".join([word["word"] for word in subtitle])
                 has_timing = any(["start" in word for word in subtitle])
 
                 # add [$SPEAKER_ID]: to each subtitle if speaker is available
@@ -293,7 +306,7 @@ class SubtitlesWriter(ResultWriter):
                             start = self.format_timestamp(this_word["start"])
                             end = self.format_timestamp(this_word["end"])
                             if last != start:
-                                yield last, start, subtitle_text
+                                yield last, start, prefix + subtitle_text
 
                             yield start, end, prefix + " ".join(
                                 [
@@ -365,12 +378,34 @@ class WriteTSV(ResultWriter):
             print(round(1000 * segment["end"]), file=file, end="\t")
             print(segment["text"].strip().replace("\t", " "), file=file, flush=True)
 
+class WriteAudacity(ResultWriter):
+    """
+    Write a transcript to a text file that audacity can import as labels.
+    The extension used is "aud" to distinguish it from the txt file produced by WriteTXT.
+    Yet this is not an audacity project but only a label file!
+    
+    Please note : Audacity uses seconds in timestamps not ms! 
+    Also there is no header expected.
+
+    If speaker is provided it is prepended to the text between double square brackets [[]].
+    """
+
+    extension: str = "aud"    
+
+    def write_result(self, result: dict, file: TextIO, options: dict):
+        ARROW = "	"
+        for segment in result["segments"]:
+            print(segment["start"], file=file, end=ARROW)
+            print(segment["end"], file=file, end=ARROW)
+            print( ( ("[[" + segment["speaker"] + "]]") if "speaker" in segment else "") + segment["text"].strip().replace("\t", " "), file=file, flush=True)
+
+            
 
 class WriteJSON(ResultWriter):
     extension: str = "json"
 
     def write_result(self, result: dict, file: TextIO, options: dict):
-        json.dump(result, file)
+        json.dump(result, file, ensure_ascii=False)
 
 
 def get_writer(
@@ -383,6 +418,9 @@ def get_writer(
         "tsv": WriteTSV,
         "json": WriteJSON,
     }
+    optional_writers = {
+        "aud": WriteAudacity,
+    }
 
     if output_format == "all":
         all_writers = [writer(output_dir) for writer in writers.values()]
@@ -393,6 +431,8 @@ def get_writer(
 
         return write_all
 
+    if output_format in optional_writers:
+        return optional_writers[output_format](output_dir)
     return writers[output_format](output_dir)
 
 def interpolate_nans(x, method='nearest'):

whisperx/vads/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+from whisperx.vads.pyannote import Pyannote as Pyannote
+from whisperx.vads.silero import Silero as Silero
+from whisperx.vads.vad import Vad as Vad

whisperx/vads/pyannote.py

@@ -1,52 +1,41 @@
-import hashlib
 import os
-import urllib
+from typing import Callable, Text, Union
-from typing import Callable, Optional, Text, Union
+from typing import Optional
 
 import numpy as np
-import pandas as pd
 import torch
 from pyannote.audio import Model
 from pyannote.audio.core.io import AudioFile
 from pyannote.audio.pipelines import VoiceActivityDetection
 from pyannote.audio.pipelines.utils import PipelineModel
-from pyannote.core import Annotation, Segment, SlidingWindowFeature
+from pyannote.core import Annotation, SlidingWindowFeature
-from tqdm import tqdm
+from pyannote.core import Segment
 
-from .diarize import Segment as SegmentX
+from whisperx.diarize import Segment as SegmentX
+from whisperx.vads.vad import Vad
 
-VAD_SEGMENTATION_URL = "https://whisperx.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/model_weights/segmentation/0b5b3216d60a2d32fc086b47ea8c67589aaeb26b7e07fcbe620d6d0b83e209ea/pytorch_model.bin"
 
 def load_vad_model(device, vad_onset=0.500, vad_offset=0.363, use_auth_token=None, model_fp=None):
     model_dir = torch.hub._get_torch_home()
+
+    main_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
+
     os.makedirs(model_dir, exist_ok = True)
     if model_fp is None:
-        model_fp = os.path.join(model_dir, "whisperx-vad-segmentation.bin")
+        # Dynamically resolve the path to the model file
+        model_fp = os.path.join(main_dir, "assets", "pytorch_model.bin")
+        model_fp = os.path.abspath(model_fp)  # Ensure the path is absolute
+    else:
+        model_fp = os.path.abspath(model_fp)  # Ensure any provided path is absolute
+
+    # Check if the resolved model file exists
+    if not os.path.exists(model_fp):
+        raise FileNotFoundError(f"Model file not found at {model_fp}")
+
     if os.path.exists(model_fp) and not os.path.isfile(model_fp):
         raise RuntimeError(f"{model_fp} exists and is not a regular file")
 
-    if not os.path.isfile(model_fp):
-        with urllib.request.urlopen(VAD_SEGMENTATION_URL) as source, open(model_fp, "wb") as output:
-            with tqdm(
-                total=int(source.info().get("Content-Length")),
-                ncols=80,
-                unit="iB",
-                unit_scale=True,
-                unit_divisor=1024,
-            ) as loop:
-                while True:
-                    buffer = source.read(8192)
-                    if not buffer:
-                        break
-
-                    output.write(buffer)
-                    loop.update(len(buffer))
-
     model_bytes = open(model_fp, "rb").read()
-    if hashlib.sha256(model_bytes).hexdigest() != VAD_SEGMENTATION_URL.split('/')[-2]:
-        raise RuntimeError(
-            "Model has been downloaded but the SHA256 checksum does not not match. Please retry loading the model."
-        )
 
     vad_model = Model.from_pretrained(model_fp, use_auth_token=use_auth_token)
     hyperparameters = {"onset": vad_onset,
@@ -92,14 +81,14 @@ class Binarize:
     """
 
     def __init__(
-        self,
+            self,
-        onset: float = 0.5,
+            onset: float = 0.5,
-        offset: Optional[float] = None,
+            offset: Optional[float] = None,
-        min_duration_on: float = 0.0,
+            min_duration_on: float = 0.0,
-        min_duration_off: float = 0.0,
+            min_duration_off: float = 0.0,
-        pad_onset: float = 0.0,
+            pad_onset: float = 0.0,
-        pad_offset: float = 0.0,
+            pad_offset: float = 0.0,
-        max_duration: float = float('inf')
+            max_duration: float = float('inf')
     ):
 
         super().__init__()
@@ -142,13 +131,12 @@ class Binarize:
             is_active = k_scores[0] > self.onset
             curr_scores = [k_scores[0]]
             curr_timestamps = [start]
+            t = start
             for t, y in zip(timestamps[1:], k_scores[1:]):
                 # currently active
                 if is_active:
                     curr_duration = t - start
                     if curr_duration > self.max_duration:
-                        # if curr_duration > 15:
-                            # import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
                         search_after = len(curr_scores) // 2
                         # divide segment
                         min_score_div_idx = search_after + np.argmin(curr_scores[search_after:])
@@ -156,8 +144,8 @@ class Binarize:
                         region = Segment(start - self.pad_onset, min_score_t + self.pad_offset)
                         active[region, k] = label
                         start = curr_timestamps[min_score_div_idx]
-                        curr_scores = curr_scores[min_score_div_idx+1:]
+                        curr_scores = curr_scores[min_score_div_idx + 1:]
-                        curr_timestamps = curr_timestamps[min_score_div_idx+1:]
+                        curr_timestamps = curr_timestamps[min_score_div_idx + 1:]
                     # switching from active to inactive
                     elif y < self.offset:
                         region = Segment(start - self.pad_onset, t + self.pad_offset)
@@ -166,14 +154,14 @@ class Binarize:
                         is_active = False
                         curr_scores = []
                         curr_timestamps = []
+                    curr_scores.append(y)
+                    curr_timestamps.append(t)
                 # currently inactive
                 else:
                     # switching from inactive to active
                     if y > self.onset:
                         start = t
                         is_active = True
-                curr_scores.append(y)
-                curr_timestamps.append(t)
 
             # if active at the end, add final region
             if is_active:
@@ -198,11 +186,11 @@ class Binarize:
 
 class VoiceActivitySegmentation(VoiceActivityDetection):
     def __init__(
-        self,
+            self,
-        segmentation: PipelineModel = "pyannote/segmentation",
+            segmentation: PipelineModel = "pyannote/segmentation",
-        fscore: bool = False,
+            fscore: bool = False,
-        use_auth_token: Union[Text, None] = None,
+            use_auth_token: Union[Text, None] = None,
-        **inference_kwargs,
+            **inference_kwargs,
     ):
 
         super().__init__(segmentation=segmentation, fscore=fscore, use_auth_token=use_auth_token, **inference_kwargs)
@@ -241,67 +229,35 @@ class VoiceActivitySegmentation(VoiceActivityDetection):
         return segmentations
 
 
-def merge_vad(vad_arr, pad_onset=0.0, pad_offset=0.0, min_duration_off=0.0, min_duration_on=0.0):
+class Pyannote(Vad):
 
-    active = Annotation()
+    def __init__(self, device, use_auth_token=None, model_fp=None, **kwargs):
-    for k, vad_t in enumerate(vad_arr):
+        print(">>Performing voice activity detection using Pyannote...")
-        region = Segment(vad_t[0] - pad_onset, vad_t[1] + pad_offset)
+        super().__init__(kwargs['vad_onset'])
-        active[region, k] = 1
+        self.vad_pipeline = load_vad_model(device, use_auth_token=use_auth_token, model_fp=model_fp)
 
+    def __call__(self, audio: AudioFile, **kwargs):
+        return self.vad_pipeline(audio)
 
-    if pad_offset > 0.0 or pad_onset > 0.0 or min_duration_off > 0.0:
+    @staticmethod
-        active = active.support(collar=min_duration_off)
+    def preprocess_audio(audio):
+        return torch.from_numpy(audio).unsqueeze(0)
 
-    # remove tracks shorter than min_duration_on
+    @staticmethod
-    if min_duration_on > 0:
+    def merge_chunks(segments,
-        for segment, track in list(active.itertracks()):
+                     chunk_size,
-            if segment.duration < min_duration_on:
+                     onset: float = 0.5,
-                    del active[segment, track]
+                     offset: Optional[float] = None,
+                     ):
+        assert chunk_size > 0
+        binarize = Binarize(max_duration=chunk_size, onset=onset, offset=offset)
+        segments = binarize(segments)
+        segments_list = []
+        for speech_turn in segments.get_timeline():
+            segments_list.append(SegmentX(speech_turn.start, speech_turn.end, "UNKNOWN"))
 
-    active = active.for_json()
+        if len(segments_list) == 0:
-    active_segs = pd.DataFrame([x['segment'] for x in active['content']])
+            print("No active speech found in audio")
-    return active_segs
+            return []
-
+        assert segments_list, "segments_list is empty."
-def merge_chunks(segments, chunk_size):
+        return Vad.merge_chunks(segments_list, chunk_size, onset, offset)
-    """
-    Merge operation described in paper
-    """
-    curr_end = 0
-    merged_segments = []
-    seg_idxs = []
-    speaker_idxs = []
-
-    assert chunk_size > 0
-    binarize = Binarize(max_duration=chunk_size)
-    segments = binarize(segments)
-    segments_list = []
-    for speech_turn in segments.get_timeline():
-        segments_list.append(SegmentX(speech_turn.start, speech_turn.end, "UNKNOWN"))
-
-    if len(segments_list) == 0:
-        print("No active speech found in audio")
-        return []
-    # assert segments_list, "segments_list is empty."
-    # Make sur the starting point is the start of the segment.
-    curr_start = segments_list[0].start
-
-    for seg in segments_list:
-        if seg.end - curr_start > chunk_size and curr_end-curr_start > 0:
-            merged_segments.append({
-                "start": curr_start,
-                "end": curr_end,
-                "segments": seg_idxs,
-            })
-            curr_start = seg.start
-            seg_idxs = []
-            speaker_idxs = []
-        curr_end = seg.end
-        seg_idxs.append((seg.start, seg.end))
-        speaker_idxs.append(seg.speaker)
-    # add final
-    merged_segments.append({ 
-                "start": curr_start,
-                "end": curr_end,
-                "segments": seg_idxs,
-            })    
-    return merged_segments

whisperx/vads/silero.py

@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+from io import IOBase
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Mapping, Text
+from typing import Optional
+from typing import Union
+
+import torch
+
+from whisperx.diarize import Segment as SegmentX
+from whisperx.vads.vad import Vad
+
+AudioFile = Union[Text, Path, IOBase, Mapping]
+
+
+class Silero(Vad):
+    # check again default values
+    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+        print(">>Performing voice activity detection using Silero...")
+        super().__init__(kwargs['vad_onset'])
+
+        self.vad_onset = kwargs['vad_onset']
+        self.chunk_size = kwargs['chunk_size']
+        self.vad_pipeline, vad_utils = torch.hub.load(repo_or_dir='snakers4/silero-vad',
+                                                      model='silero_vad',
+                                                      force_reload=False,
+                                                      onnx=False,
+                                                      trust_repo=True)
+        (self.get_speech_timestamps, _, self.read_audio, _, _) = vad_utils
+
+    def __call__(self, audio: AudioFile, **kwargs):
+        """use silero to get segments of speech"""
+        # Only accept 16000 Hz for now.
+        # Note: Silero models support both 8000 and 16000 Hz. Although other values are not directly supported,
+        # multiples of 16000 (e.g. 32000 or 48000) are cast to 16000 inside of the JIT model!
+        sample_rate = audio["sample_rate"]
+        if sample_rate != 16000:
+            raise ValueError("Only 16000Hz sample rate is allowed")
+
+        timestamps = self.get_speech_timestamps(audio["waveform"],
+                                                model=self.vad_pipeline,
+                                                sampling_rate=sample_rate,
+                                                max_speech_duration_s=self.chunk_size,
+                                                threshold=self.vad_onset
+                                                # min_silence_duration_ms = self.min_duration_off/1000
+                                                # min_speech_duration_ms = self.min_duration_on/1000
+                                                # ...
+                                                # See silero documentation for full option list
+                                                )
+        return [SegmentX(i['start'] / sample_rate, i['end'] / sample_rate, "UNKNOWN") for i in timestamps]
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def preprocess_audio(audio):
+        return audio
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def merge_chunks(segments_list,
+                     chunk_size,
+                     onset: float = 0.5,
+                     offset: Optional[float] = None,
+                     ):
+        assert chunk_size > 0
+        if len(segments_list) == 0:
+            print("No active speech found in audio")
+            return []
+        assert segments_list, "segments_list is empty."
+        return Vad.merge_chunks(segments_list, chunk_size, onset, offset)

whisperx/vads/vad.py

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+from typing import Optional
+
+import pandas as pd
+from pyannote.core import Annotation, Segment
+
+
+class Vad:
+    def __init__(self, vad_onset):
+        if not (0 < vad_onset < 1):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "vad_onset is a decimal value between 0 and 1."
+            )
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def preprocess_audio(audio):
+        pass
+
+    # keep merge_chunks as static so it can be also used by manually assigned vad_model (see 'load_model')
+    @staticmethod
+    def merge_chunks(segments,
+                     chunk_size,
+                     onset: float,
+                     offset: Optional[float]):
+        """
+         Merge operation described in paper
+         """
+        curr_end = 0
+        merged_segments = []
+        seg_idxs: list[tuple]= []
+        speaker_idxs: list[Optional[str]] = []
+
+        curr_start = segments[0].start
+        for seg in segments:
+            if seg.end - curr_start > chunk_size and curr_end - curr_start > 0:
+                merged_segments.append({
+                    "start": curr_start,
+                    "end": curr_end,
+                    "segments": seg_idxs,
+                })
+                curr_start = seg.start
+                seg_idxs = []
+                speaker_idxs = []
+            curr_end = seg.end
+            seg_idxs.append((seg.start, seg.end))
+            speaker_idxs.append(seg.speaker)
+        # add final
+        merged_segments.append({
+            "start": curr_start,
+            "end": curr_end,
+            "segments": seg_idxs,
+        })
+
+        return merged_segments
+
+    # Unused function
+    @staticmethod
+    def merge_vad(vad_arr, pad_onset=0.0, pad_offset=0.0, min_duration_off=0.0, min_duration_on=0.0):
+        active = Annotation()
+        for k, vad_t in enumerate(vad_arr):
+            region = Segment(vad_t[0] - pad_onset, vad_t[1] + pad_offset)
+            active[region, k] = 1
+
+        if pad_offset > 0.0 or pad_onset > 0.0 or min_duration_off > 0.0:
+            active = active.support(collar=min_duration_off)
+
+        # remove tracks shorter than min_duration_on
+        if min_duration_on > 0:
+            for segment, track in list(active.itertracks()):
+                if segment.duration < min_duration_on:
+                    del active[segment, track]
+
+        active = active.for_json()
+        active_segs = pd.DataFrame([x['segment'] for x in active['content']])
+        return active_segs