ggml-org/whisper.cpp

Add ability to limit auto-detection to a subset of languages

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#1,242 opened on Sep 2, 2023

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Description

From what I can tell, auto-detection simply picks the language with the highest probability score. Sometimes, I know the language could only be 1 out of 5 possible languages. In such cases, it would be useful to be able to specify the possible languages, to improve the likelyhood of the auto-detection picking the correct language.

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Research direction
Explore the auto detection code in whisper.cpp, identify where language probabilities are calculated, and implement an option to restrict the candidate languages to a user provided subset.
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cpp
Domain
apimachine learning
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