v0.14.0

[ZachNagengast]

Highlights

This release introduces the WhisperKit Local Server! A OpenAI-compatible Vapor based HTTP server that can be run via CLI or as a subprocess.

Try it out with the following command:

BUILD_ALL=1 swift run whisperkit-cli serve

Key Features

• Local Server: OpenAI-compatible /v1/audio/transcriptions and /v1/audio/translations endpoints
• Transcription Streaming: Server-sent events as files get transcribed
• Response Formats: Support for json, verbose_json
• Timestamp Granularities: Word-level and segment-level timestamps
• Client Examples: Python, Swift, and Bash with curl

You can also use the Makefile command make build-local-server to generate an exectuable that can be bundled in your electron or tauri apps without needing any native integration.

There are also several bugfixes and quality of life improvements relating to tokenizer loading and VAD access.

What's Changed

• Add WhisperKit Local Server with audio transcription and translation APIs by @a2they in Add WhisperKit Local Server with audio transcription and translation APIs #348
• Tokenizer and punctuation fixes, better remote config handling by @ZachNagengast in Tokenizer and punctuation fixes, better remote config handling #350
• Update README.md with Argmax SDK by @atiorh in Update README.md with Argmax SDK #346
• Make EnergyVAD public by @finnvoor in Make EnergyVAD public #347

Full Changelog: v0.13.1...v0.14.0

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