Using whisper small

app.py

@@ -214,8 +214,8 @@ if USE_LOCAL_ASR_PIPELINE:
 
     global ASR_PIPELINE
     ASR_PIPELINE = pipeline(task="automatic-speech-recognition", 
-                            model="openai/whisper-large-v3")
-                            #model="distil-whisper/distil-small.en") # English only
+                            #model="openai/whisper-large-v3")
+                            model="openai/whisper-small")
 else:
     import requests
     global ASR_API_URL, ASR_API_HEADERS