NEWS

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audio.whisper 0.4.1

• Added function predict.whisper_transcription which allows to assign a transcription segment to either a left/right channel based on a Voice Activity Detection

audio.whisper 0.4

• Allow to pass on multiple offset/durations
• Allow to give sections in the audio (e.g. detected with a voice activity detector) to filter out these (voiced) data, make the transcription and make sure to add the amount of time which was cut out to the from/to timestamps such that the resulting timepoints in from/to are aligned to the original audio file
• The data element of the predict.whisper now includes a column called segment_offset indicating the offset of the provided sections or offsets

audio.whisper 0.3.3

• Fixes of typos in documentation of functions
• Add stereo.wav file
• Allow to do diarization for audio with 2 channels by comparing the energy of the signal in each channel for each segment

audio.whisper 0.3.2

• Documentation of arguments in predict.whisper
• Add option to download quantised models
  • tiny-q5_1, tiny.en-q5_1
  • base-q5_1, base.en-q5_1
  • small-q5_1, small.en-q5_1
  • medium-q5_0, medium.en-q5_0
  • large-v2-q5_0 and large-v3-q5_0
• Allow to disable printing the transcription evolution during the prediction with the trace argument
• Enable O3 optimisations by default
• Allow speedup of transcriptions by compiling with cuBLAS against CUDA on Linux
  • specify Sys.setenv(WHISPER_CUBLAS = "1") before installing the package if you have a GPU with CUDA

audio.whisper 0.3.1

• Makevars
  • Added detection of AVX512F for adding compilation flags to PKG_CFLAGS/PKG_CPPFLAGS
  • Enable Metal for speeding up transcriptions on the GPU on Mac
  • Enable compiling with OpenBLAS to speed up the transcriptions
• Add whisper_languages to get a data.frame of all languages the Whisper model can handle
• whisper_download_model
  • change default timeout to 10 minutes if no timeout is set by the user + change output element in the list to 'download_success' instead of 'download_failed'
  • model_dir now defaults to the directory set in the environment variable WHISPER_MODEL_DIR and if this is not set, the current working directory
• whisper
  • Add option use_gpu to be able to run the prediction on a GPU (e.g. Metal)
• predict.whisper
  • Add option to pass on initial prompt
  • Output of predict.whisper adds the audio duration of the wav file in seconds in the params list element
  • Gains an extra argument indicating to transcribe or translate

audio.whisper 0.3

• Upgrade to whisper.cpp version v1.5.4
• whisper_download_model allows to download 'large-v1', 'large-v2', 'large-v3' while model 'large' should no longer be used

audio.whisper 0.2.2

• Add option to pass on float entropy_thold (similar to compression_ratio_threshold), logprob_thold, beam_size, best_of, split_on_word, max_context when doing the prediction
• Output of the predict.whisper function now includes an element called timing indicating how long it took to do the transcription
• whisper gains 2 arguments: the model_dir/overwrite which is passed directly to whisper_download_model
• whisper_download_model
  • gains an argument version which defaults to models for whisper.cpp version 1.2.1
  • gets the models now from https://huggingface.co/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/resolve/80da2d8bfee42b0e836fc3a9890373e5defc00a6 instead of https://huggingface.co/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/resolve/main

audio.whisper 0.2.1-1

• whisper_download_model now Deprecates downloading from https://ggml.ggerganov.com and changed the URL's to download models from huggingface (Issue #18)

audio.whisper 0.2.1

• Add option to compile with own PKG_CFLAGS by setting environment variable WHISPER_CFLAGS
• Add option to compile with extra PKG_CPPFLAGS by setting environment variable WHISPER_CPPFLAGS

audio.whisper 0.2.0

• Incorporate whisper.cpp version v1.2.1

audio.whisper 0.1.3

• Ongoing work on improving compilation instructions to speed up transcribing while still being CRAN compliant
• Add whisper_benchmark

audio.whisper 0.1.2

• Incorporate whisper.cpp release 1.0.4: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/releases/tag/1.0.4 and up to commit 99da1e5cc853f7cdd61d2f259c8d770ea9279d29
• predict.whisper now uses 'auto' as default language
• predict.whisper now sets resulting text with UTF-8 encoding

audio.whisper 0.1.1

• Incorporate https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/pull/257 (Remove C++20 requirement)

audio.whisper 0.1.0

• Initial version based on
  • https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp commit 85c9ac18b59125b988cda40f40d8687e1ba88a7a
  • https://github.com/mackron/dr_libs commit dd762b861ecadf5ddd5fb03e9ca1db6707b54fbb
• Added whisper
  • whisper_download_model, whisper and predict.whisper