metadata

title: Whisper Webui
emoji: ⚡
colorFrom: pink
colorTo: purple
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 3.3.1
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
license: apache-2.0

Check out the configuration reference at https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-config-reference

Running Locally

To run this program locally, first install Python 3.9+ and Git. Then install Pytorch 10.1+ and all the other dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Finally, run the full version (no audio length restrictions) of the app:

python app-full.py

You can also run the CLI interface, which is similar to Whisper's own CLI but also supports the following additional arguments:

python cli.py \
[--vad {none,silero-vad,silero-vad-skip-gaps,silero-vad-expand-into-gaps,periodic-vad}] \
[--vad_merge_window VAD_MERGE_WINDOW] \
[--vad_max_merge_size VAD_MAX_MERGE_SIZE] \
[--vad_padding VAD_PADDING] \
[--vad_prompt_window VAD_PROMPT_WINDOW]
[--vad_parallel_devices COMMA_DELIMITED_DEVICES]

In addition, you may also use URL's in addition to file paths as input.

python cli.py --model large --vad silero-vad --language Japanese "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cICErqqRSM"

Parallel Execution

You can also run both the Web-UI or the CLI on multiple GPUs in parallel, using the vad_parallel_devices option. This takes a comma-delimited list of device IDs (0, 1, etc.) that Whisper should be distributed to and run on concurrently:

python cli.py --model large --vad silero-vad --language Japanese --vad_parallel_devices 0,1 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cICErqqRSM"

Note that this requires a VAD to function properly, otherwise only the first GPU will be used. Though you could use period-vad to avoid taking the hit of running Silero-Vad, at a slight cost to accuracy.

This is achieved by creating N child processes (where N is the number of selected devices), where Whisper is run concurrently. In app.py, you can also set the vad_process_timeout option, which configures the number of seconds until a process is killed due to inactivity, freeing RAM and video memory. The default value is 30 minutes.

python app.py --input_audio_max_duration -1 --vad_parallel_devices 0,1 --vad_process_timeout 3600

You may also use vad_process_timeout with a single device (--vad_parallel_devices 0), if you prefer to free video memory after a period of time.

Docker

To run it in Docker, first install Docker and optionally the NVIDIA Container Toolkit in order to use the GPU. Then check out this repository and build an image:

sudo docker build -t whisper-webui:1 .

You can then start the WebUI with GPU support like so:

sudo docker run -d --gpus=all -p 7860:7860 whisper-webui:1

Leave out "--gpus=all" if you don't have access to a GPU with enough memory, and are fine with running it on the CPU only:

sudo docker run -d -p 7860:7860 whisper-webui:1

Caching

Note that the models themselves are currently not included in the Docker images, and will be downloaded on the demand. To avoid this, bind the directory /root/.cache/whisper to some directory on the host (for instance /home/administrator/.cache/whisper), where you can (optionally) prepopulate the directory with the different Whisper models.

sudo docker run -d --gpus=all -p 7860:7860 --mount type=bind,source=/home/administrator/.cache/whisper,target=/root/.cache/whisper whisper-webui:1