OpenAI has recently published their Whisper model API for audio transcription.

Unfortunately, this API does not provide streaming capabilities. This project aims to provide a streaming interface to the OpenAI API.

Currently only streaming of response is supported. If you need also streaming of input aduio, please open an issue and describe what you need, it should be easy to implement.

pip install git+https://github.com/gkorepanov/whisper-stream.git

To transcribe a file, run the following command:

OPENAI_API_KEY=<KEY> whisperstream /path/to/your/audio/file.ogg -l en

You can omit the language parameter, it will be detected automatically.

from whisperstream import atranscribe_streaming_simple
path = '/path/to/your/audio/file.ogg'
language, gen = await atranscribe_streaming_simple(path)

# language is a Lang object from [iso369 lib](https://github.com/LBeaudoux/iso639)
print(language.name)

async for segment in gen:
    # segment is an OpenAI Python API object
    # it has `start`, `end`, `text` attributes
    print(segment.text, end="")