whispercpp 1.3.1 → 1.3.2

data/ext/sources/examples/livestream.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Transcribe audio livestream by feeding ffmpeg output to whisper.cpp at regular intervals
+# Idea by @semiformal-net
+# ref: https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/issues/185
+#
+
+set -eo pipefail
+
+url="http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/nonuk/sbr_low/ak/bbc_world_service.m3u8"
+fmt=aac # the audio format extension of the stream (TODO: auto detect)
+step_s=30
+model="base.en"
+
+check_requirements()
+{
+    if ! command -v ./build/bin/whisper-cli &>/dev/null; then
+        echo "whisper.cpp main executable is required (make)"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+
+    if ! command -v ffmpeg &>/dev/null; then
+        echo "ffmpeg is required (https://ffmpeg.org)"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+}
+
+check_requirements
+
+
+if [ -z "$1" ]; then
+    echo "Usage: $0 stream_url [step_s] [model]"
+    echo ""
+    echo "  Example:"
+    echo "    $0 $url $step_s $model"
+    echo ""
+    echo "No url specified, using default: $url"
+else
+    url="$1"
+fi
+
+if [ -n "$2" ]; then
+    step_s="$2"
+fi
+
+if [ -n "$3" ]; then
+    model="$3"
+fi
+
+# Whisper models
+models=( "tiny.en" "tiny" "base.en" "base" "small.en" "small" "medium.en" "medium" "large-v1" "large-v2" "large-v3" "large-v3-turbo" )
+
+# list available models
+function list_models {
+    printf "\n"
+    printf "  Available models:"
+    for model in "${models[@]}"; do
+        printf " $model"
+    done
+    printf "\n\n"
+}
+
+if [[ ! " ${models[@]} " =~ " ${model} " ]]; then
+    printf "Invalid model: $model\n"
+    list_models
+
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+running=1
+
+trap "running=0" SIGINT SIGTERM
+
+printf "[+] Transcribing stream with model '$model', step_s $step_s (press Ctrl+C to stop):\n\n"
+
+# continuous stream in native fmt (this file will grow forever!)
+ffmpeg -loglevel quiet -y -re -probesize 32 -i $url -c copy /tmp/whisper-live0.${fmt} &
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+    printf "Error: ffmpeg failed to capture audio stream\n"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+printf "Buffering audio. Please wait...\n\n"
+sleep $(($step_s))
+
+# do not stop script on error
+set +e
+
+i=0
+SECONDS=0
+while [ $running -eq 1 ]; do
+    # extract the next piece from the main file above and transcode to wav. -ss sets start time and nudges it by -0.5s to catch missing words (??)
+    err=1
+    while [ $err -ne 0 ]; do
+        if [ $i -gt 0 ]; then
+            ffmpeg -loglevel quiet -v error -noaccurate_seek -i /tmp/whisper-live0.${fmt} -y -ar 16000 -ac 1 -c:a pcm_s16le -ss $(($i*$step_s-1)).5 -t $step_s /tmp/whisper-live.wav 2> /tmp/whisper-live.err
+        else
+            ffmpeg -loglevel quiet -v error -noaccurate_seek -i /tmp/whisper-live0.${fmt} -y -ar 16000 -ac 1 -c:a pcm_s16le -ss $(($i*$step_s)) -t $step_s /tmp/whisper-live.wav 2> /tmp/whisper-live.err
+        fi
+        err=$(cat /tmp/whisper-live.err | wc -l)
+    done
+
+    ./build/bin/whisper-cli -t 8 -m ./models/ggml-${model}.bin -f /tmp/whisper-live.wav --no-timestamps -otxt 2> /tmp/whispererr | tail -n 1
+
+    while [ $SECONDS -lt $((($i+1)*$step_s)) ]; do
+        sleep 1
+    done
+    ((i=i+1))
+done
+
+killall -v ffmpeg
+killall -v whisper-cli

data/ext/sources/examples/lsp/CMakeLists.txt

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+if (WHISPER_SDL2)
+    # stream
+    set(TARGET lsp)
+    add_executable(${TARGET} lsp.cpp)
+
+    include(DefaultTargetOptions)
+
+    target_link_libraries(${TARGET} PRIVATE common json_cpp common-sdl whisper ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT})
+endif ()

data/ext/sources/examples/lsp/lsp.cpp

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+#include "common.h"
+#include "common-sdl.h"
+#include "whisper.h"
+#include "json.hpp"
+
+#include <cassert>
+#include <chrono>
+#include <cstdio>
+#include <deque>
+#include <iostream>
+#include <set>
+#include <string>
+#include <thread>
+#include <vector>
+
+using json = nlohmann::json;
+
+// command-line parameters
+struct whisper_params {
+    int32_t n_threads  = std::min(4, (int32_t) std::thread::hardware_concurrency());
+    int32_t prompt_ms  = 5000;
+    int32_t command_ms = 8000;
+    int32_t capture_id = -1;
+    int32_t max_tokens = 32;
+    int32_t audio_ctx  = 0;
+
+    float vad_thold    = 0.6f;
+    float freq_thold   = 100.0f;
+
+    bool translate     = false;
+    bool print_special = false;
+    bool print_energy  = false;
+    bool use_gpu       = true;
+    bool flash_attn    = false;
+
+    std::string language  = "en";
+    std::string model     = "models/ggml-base.en.bin";
+};
+struct command {
+    std::vector<whisper_token> tokens;
+    std::string plaintext;
+};
+struct commandset {
+    std::vector<struct command> commands;
+    std::vector<whisper_token> prompt_tokens;
+    // TODO: Store longest command?
+    // Multi-token commands should have probabilities of subsequent logits
+    // given that the prior logit is correct.
+    // In this case, all commands must be iterated.
+    // This however, is likely highly involved as different tokens
+    // almost certainly have different spoken lengths
+    // It would also have performance implications equivalent to a beam search
+};
+
+void whisper_print_usage(int argc, char ** argv, const whisper_params & params);
+
+static bool whisper_params_parse(int argc, char ** argv, whisper_params & params) {
+    for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
+        std::string arg = argv[i];
+
+        if (arg == "-h" || arg == "--help") {
+            whisper_print_usage(argc, argv, params);
+            exit(0);
+        }
+        else if (arg == "-t"   || arg == "--threads")       { params.n_threads     = std::stoi(argv[++i]); }
+        else if (arg == "-pms" || arg == "--prompt-ms")     { params.prompt_ms     = std::stoi(argv[++i]); }
+        else if (arg == "-cms" || arg == "--command-ms")    { params.command_ms    = std::stoi(argv[++i]); }
+        else if (arg == "-c"   || arg == "--capture")       { params.capture_id    = std::stoi(argv[++i]); }
+        else if (arg == "-mt"  || arg == "--max-tokens")    { params.max_tokens    = std::stoi(argv[++i]); }
+        else if (arg == "-ac"  || arg == "--audio-ctx")     { params.audio_ctx     = std::stoi(argv[++i]); }
+        else if (arg == "-vth" || arg == "--vad-thold")     { params.vad_thold     = std::stof(argv[++i]); }
+        else if (arg == "-fth" || arg == "--freq-thold")    { params.freq_thold    = std::stof(argv[++i]); }
+        else if (arg == "-tr"  || arg == "--translate")     { params.translate     = true; }
+        else if (arg == "-ps"  || arg == "--print-special") { params.print_special = true; }
+        else if (arg == "-pe"  || arg == "--print-energy")  { params.print_energy  = true; }
+        else if (arg == "-ng"  || arg == "--no-gpu")        { params.use_gpu       = false; }
+        else if (arg == "-fa"  || arg == "--flash-attn")    { params.flash_attn    = true; }
+        else if (arg == "-l"   || arg == "--language")      { params.language      = argv[++i]; }
+        else if (arg == "-m"   || arg == "--model")         { params.model         = argv[++i]; }
+        else {
+            fprintf(stderr, "error: unknown argument: %s\n", arg.c_str());
+            whisper_print_usage(argc, argv, params);
+            exit(0);
+        }
+    }
+
+    return true;
+}
+
+void whisper_print_usage(int /*argc*/, char ** argv, const whisper_params & params) {
+    fprintf(stderr, "\n");
+    fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s [options]\n", argv[0]);
+    fprintf(stderr, "\n");
+    fprintf(stderr, "options:\n");
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -h,         --help           [default] show this help message and exit\n");
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -t N,       --threads N      [%-7d] number of threads to use during computation\n", params.n_threads);
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -pms N,     --prompt-ms N    [%-7d] prompt duration in milliseconds\n",             params.prompt_ms);
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -cms N,     --command-ms N   [%-7d] command duration in milliseconds\n",            params.command_ms);
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -c ID,      --capture ID     [%-7d] capture device ID\n",                           params.capture_id);
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -mt N,      --max-tokens N   [%-7d] maximum number of tokens per audio chunk\n",    params.max_tokens);
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -ac N,      --audio-ctx N    [%-7d] audio context size (0 - all)\n",                params.audio_ctx);
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -vth N,     --vad-thold N    [%-7.2f] voice activity detection threshold\n",        params.vad_thold);
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -fth N,     --freq-thold N   [%-7.2f] high-pass frequency cutoff\n",                params.freq_thold);
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -tr,        --translate      [%-7s] translate from source language to english\n",   params.translate ? "true" : "false");
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -ps,        --print-special  [%-7s] print special tokens\n",                        params.print_special ? "true" : "false");
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -pe,        --print-energy   [%-7s] print sound energy (for debugging)\n",          params.print_energy ? "true" : "false");
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -ng,        --no-gpu         [%-7s] disable GPU\n",                                 params.use_gpu ? "false" : "true");
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -fa,        --flash-attn     [%-7s] flash attention\n",                             params.flash_attn ? "true" : "false");
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -l LANG,    --language LANG  [%-7s] spoken language\n",                             params.language.c_str());
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -m FNAME,   --model FNAME    [%-7s] model path\n",                                  params.model.c_str());
+    fprintf(stderr, "\n");
+}
+static uint64_t wait_for_vad(audio_async & audio, json jparams, const whisper_params & params, uint64_t maxlength_ms, std::vector<float> & pcmf32) {
+    using namespace std::chrono;
+    uint64_t time_now = time_point_cast<milliseconds>(system_clock::now()).time_since_epoch().count();
+    uint64_t start_time = time_now;
+    if (jparams.contains("timestamp")) {
+        start_time = jparams.at("timestamp");
+    }
+    if(time_now - start_time < 500) {
+        //wait for a backlog of audio
+        std::this_thread::sleep_for(milliseconds(500 - (time_now - start_time)));
+        time_now = time_point_cast<milliseconds>(system_clock::now()).time_since_epoch().count();
+    } else if (time_now - start_time > 1000) {
+        audio.get(time_now-start_time, pcmf32);
+        size_t max_offset = pcmf32.size() - WHISPER_SAMPLE_RATE;
+        for(size_t offset=0;offset < max_offset;offset+=WHISPER_SAMPLE_RATE/10) {
+            std::vector<float> audio_chunk(&pcmf32[offset], &pcmf32[offset+WHISPER_SAMPLE_RATE]);
+            if(::vad_simple(audio_chunk, WHISPER_SAMPLE_RATE, 1000, params.vad_thold, params.freq_thold, params.print_energy)) {
+                pcmf32.resize(offset+WHISPER_SAMPLE_RATE);
+                if (offset*1000/WHISPER_SAMPLE_RATE+1000 > maxlength_ms) {
+                    //remove samples from the beginning
+                    pcmf32.erase(pcmf32.begin(),pcmf32.end()-(maxlength_ms*WHISPER_SAMPLE_RATE/1000));
+                    fprintf(stderr, "Shortened samples");
+                }
+                return start_time + offset*1000/WHISPER_SAMPLE_RATE+1000;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    size_t window_duration = std::max((uint64_t)1000, time_now-start_time);
+    audio.get(window_duration, pcmf32);
+    while (!::vad_simple(pcmf32, WHISPER_SAMPLE_RATE, 1000, params.vad_thold, params.freq_thold, params.print_energy)) {
+        std::this_thread::sleep_for(milliseconds(100));
+        time_now = time_point_cast<milliseconds>(system_clock::now()).time_since_epoch().count();
+        window_duration = std::max((uint64_t)1000,time_now-start_time);
+        audio.get(window_duration, pcmf32);
+    }
+    if (time_now - start_time > maxlength_ms) {
+        audio.get(maxlength_ms, pcmf32);
+    } else {
+        audio.get(time_now - start_time, pcmf32);
+    }
+
+    return time_now;
+}
+
+static json unguided_transcription(struct whisper_context * ctx, audio_async &audio, json jparams, const whisper_params &params) {
+    std::vector<whisper_token> prompt_tokens;
+    std::vector<float> pcmf32;
+    uint64_t unprocessed_audio_timestamp = wait_for_vad(audio, jparams, params, 10000U, pcmf32);
+
+    whisper_full_params wparams = whisper_full_default_params(WHISPER_SAMPLING_GREEDY);
+    if (jparams.contains("prompt")) {
+        // unlikely to see much use. Under normal circumstances, no_context would be set to false
+        std::string prompt = jparams.at("prompt");
+        prompt_tokens.resize(1024);
+        int n = whisper_tokenize(ctx, prompt.c_str(), prompt_tokens.data(), 1024);
+        prompt_tokens.resize(n);
+
+        wparams.prompt_tokens    = prompt_tokens.data();
+        wparams.prompt_n_tokens  = prompt_tokens.size();
+    }
+    wparams.print_progress   = false;
+    wparams.print_special    = params.print_special;
+    wparams.print_realtime   = false;
+    wparams.print_timestamps = false;
+    wparams.translate        = params.translate;
+    wparams.no_context       = jparams.value("no_context", true);
+    wparams.single_segment   = true;
+    wparams.max_tokens       = params.max_tokens;
+    wparams.language         = params.language.c_str();
+    wparams.n_threads        = params.n_threads;
+
+    wparams.audio_ctx        = params.audio_ctx;
+    wparams.suppress_nst     = true;
+    // run the transformer and a single decoding pass
+    if (whisper_full(ctx, wparams, pcmf32.data(), pcmf32.size()) != 0) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s: ERROR: whisper_full() failed\n", __func__);
+        throw json{
+            {"code", -32803},
+            {"message", "ERROR: whisper_full() failed"}
+        };
+    }
+    std::string result = whisper_full_get_segment_text(ctx,0);
+    return json {
+        {"transcription", result},
+        {"timestamp", unprocessed_audio_timestamp}
+    };
+}
+
+// command-list mode
+// guide the transcription to match the most likely command from a provided list
+static json guided_transcription(struct whisper_context * ctx, audio_async &audio, const whisper_params &params, json jparams, std::vector<struct commandset> commandset_list) {
+    struct commandset cs = commandset_list[jparams.value("commandset_index", commandset_list.size()-1)];
+    std::vector<float> pcmf32;
+    uint64_t unprocessed_audio_timestamp = wait_for_vad(audio, jparams, params, 2000U, pcmf32);
+
+    fprintf(stderr, "%s: Speech detected! Processing ...\n", __func__);
+    whisper_full_params wparams = whisper_full_default_params(WHISPER_SAMPLING_GREEDY);
+
+    wparams.print_progress   = false;
+    wparams.print_special    = params.print_special;
+    wparams.print_realtime   = false;
+    wparams.print_timestamps = false;
+    wparams.translate        = params.translate;
+    wparams.no_context       = true;
+    wparams.single_segment   = true;
+    wparams.max_tokens       = 1;
+    wparams.language         = params.language.c_str();
+    wparams.n_threads        = params.n_threads;
+
+    wparams.audio_ctx        = params.audio_ctx;
+
+    // TODO: Do some time testing. Does an overly long prompt slow down processing?
+    // Set up command sets/precompute prompts
+    wparams.prompt_tokens    = cs.prompt_tokens.data();
+    wparams.prompt_n_tokens  = cs.prompt_tokens.size();
+    // TODO: properly expose as option
+    wparams.suppress_nst     = true;
+
+    // run the transformer and a single decoding pass
+    if (whisper_full(ctx, wparams, pcmf32.data(), pcmf32.size()) != 0) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s: ERROR: whisper_full() failed\n", __func__);
+        throw json{
+            {"code", -32803},
+            {"message", "ERROR: whisper_full() failed"}//TODO: format string (sprintf?)
+        };
+    }
+
+    // estimate command probability
+    // NOTE: not optimal
+    {
+        const auto * logits = whisper_get_logits(ctx);
+
+        std::vector<float> probs(whisper_n_vocab(ctx), 0.0f);
+
+        // compute probs from logits via softmax
+        {
+            float max = -1e9;
+            for (int i = 0; i < (int) probs.size(); ++i) {
+                max = std::max(max, logits[i]);
+            }
+
+            float sum = 0.0f;
+            for (int i = 0; i < (int) probs.size(); ++i) {
+                probs[i] = expf(logits[i] - max);
+                sum += probs[i];
+            }
+
+            for (int i = 0; i < (int) probs.size(); ++i) {
+                probs[i] /= sum;
+            }
+        }
+
+        std::vector<std::pair<float, int>> probs_id;
+
+        // In my testing, the most verbose token is always the desired.
+        // TODO: Trim commandset struct once efficacy has been verified
+        for (int i = 0; i < (int) cs.commands.size(); ++i) {
+            probs_id.emplace_back(probs[cs.commands[i].tokens[0]], i);
+        }
+
+        // sort descending
+        {
+            using pair_type = decltype(probs_id)::value_type;
+            std::sort(probs_id.begin(), probs_id.end(), [](const pair_type & a, const pair_type & b) {
+                    return a.first > b.first;
+                    });
+        }
+        int id = probs_id[0].second;
+        return json{
+            {"command_index", id},
+                {"command_text", cs.commands[id].plaintext},
+                {"timestamp", unprocessed_audio_timestamp},
+        };
+    }
+}
+
+static json register_commandset(struct whisper_context * ctx, json jparams, std::vector<struct commandset> &commandset_list) {
+    // TODO: check for token collision
+    struct commandset cs;
+
+    std::string  k_prompt = " select one from the available words: ";
+    std::set<whisper_token> token_set;
+    whisper_token tokens[32];
+    for (std::string s : jparams) {
+        std::vector<whisper_token> token_vec;
+        // The existing command implementation uses a nested for loop to tokenize single characters
+        // I fail to see the purpose of this when ' a' has a wholly different pronunciation than the start of ' apple'
+        const int n = whisper_tokenize(ctx, (" " + s).c_str(), tokens, 32);
+        if (n < 0) {
+            fprintf(stderr, "%s: error: failed to tokenize command '%s'\n", __func__, s.c_str());
+            return 3;
+        }
+        token_vec.push_back(tokens[0]);
+        if (!token_set.insert(tokens[0]).second) {
+            fprintf(stderr, "%s: warning: %s is a duplicate of an existing token\n", __func__, s.c_str());
+            throw json{
+                {"code",-31000},
+                {"message", "Duplicate token in token set: " + s}
+            };
+        }
+        if (n > 1) {// empty string if n=0? Should never occur
+            fprintf(stderr, "%s: error: command is more than a single token: %s\n", __func__, s.c_str());
+        }
+        struct command command = {token_vec, s};
+        cs.commands.push_back(command);
+        k_prompt += s;
+    }
+    k_prompt = k_prompt.substr(0,k_prompt.length()-2) + ". Selected word:";
+    cs.prompt_tokens.resize(1024);
+    int n = whisper_tokenize(ctx, k_prompt.c_str(), cs.prompt_tokens.data(), 1024);
+    cs.prompt_tokens.resize(n);
+    // prepare response
+    int index = commandset_list.size();
+    commandset_list.push_back(cs);
+    return json{{"index",index}};
+}
+
+static json seek(struct whisper_context * /*ctx*/, audio_async & /*audio*/, json /*params*/) {
+    // whisper_state has the pertinent offsets, but there also seem to be a large
+    // number of scratch buffers that would prevent rewinding context in a manner similar to llama
+    // I'll give this a another pass once everything else is implemented,
+    // but for now, it's unsupported
+    throw json {
+        {"code", -32601},
+            {"message", "Seeking is not yet supported."}
+    };
+}
+
+static json parse_job(const json &body, struct whisper_context * ctx, audio_async &audio, const whisper_params &params, std::vector<struct commandset> &commandset_list) {
+    // See: https://www.jsonrpc.org/specification
+    json id = body.at("id");
+    try {
+        std::string version = body.at("jsonrpc");
+        if (version != "2.0") {
+            // unsupported version
+            throw json{
+                {"code", -3260},
+                {"message", "invalid jsonrpc version"}
+            };
+        }
+        std::string method = body.at("method");
+        json jparams = json{{"dummy", "dummy"}};
+        if (body.contains("params"))
+            jparams = body.at("params");
+        json res;
+        // TODO: be consistent about argument order
+        fprintf(stderr, "Dispatching a job\n");
+        if (method == "unguided")                { res = unguided_transcription(ctx, audio, jparams, params); }
+        else if (method == "guided")             { res = guided_transcription(ctx, audio, params, jparams, commandset_list); }
+        else if (method == "seek")               { res = seek(ctx, audio, jparams); }
+        else if (method == "registerCommandset") { res = register_commandset(ctx, jparams, commandset_list); }
+        else if (method == "echo")               { res = jparams; }
+
+
+        return json{
+            {"jsonrpc", "2.0"},
+                {"result", res},
+                {"id", id}
+        };
+    } catch(json ex) {
+        return json {
+            {"jsonrpc", "2.0"},
+                {"error", ex},
+                {"id", id}
+        };
+    }
+}
+
+static void process_loop(struct whisper_context * ctx, audio_async &audio, const whisper_params &params) {
+    std::deque<json> jobqueue;
+    std::vector<struct commandset> commandset_list;
+    while (true) {
+        // For eventual cancellation support, shouldn't block if job exists
+        if (std::cin.rdbuf()->in_avail() > 22 || jobqueue.size() == 0) {
+            int content_length;
+            if (scanf("Content-Length: %d", &content_length) != 1) {
+                fprintf(stderr, "Could not read input: %d", std::cin.peek());
+                return;
+            }
+            // scanf leaves the new lines intact
+            std::cin.ignore(2);
+            if (std::cin.peek() != 13) {
+                // Content-Type. jsonrpc necessitates utf8.
+                std::cin.ignore(200,10);
+            }
+            std::cin.ignore(2);
+            // A message is being sent and blocking is acceptable
+            std::string content(content_length,'\0');
+            std::cin.read(&content[0], content_length);
+            json job = json::parse(content);
+            // TODO: Some messages(cancellation) should skip queue here
+            if (job.is_array()) {
+                // response must also be batched. Will implement later
+                // for (subjob : job.begin())
+                // TODO: At the very least respond with an unsupported error.
+            } else {
+                jobqueue.push_back(job);
+            }
+        }
+        assert(jobqueue.size() > 0);
+        json job = jobqueue.front();
+        json resp = parse_job(job, ctx, audio, params, commandset_list);
+        if (resp != "unfinished") {
+            jobqueue.pop_front();
+            // send response
+            std::string data = resp.dump(-1, ' ', false, json::error_handler_t::replace);
+            fprintf(stdout, "Content-Length: %d\r\n\r\n%s\n", (int)data.length()+1, data.c_str());
+            std::cout.flush();
+
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
+    whisper_params params;
+    if (whisper_params_parse(argc, argv, params) == false) {
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    if (whisper_lang_id(params.language.c_str()) == -1) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "error: unknown language '%s'\n", params.language.c_str());
+        whisper_print_usage(argc, argv, params);
+        exit(0);
+    }
+
+    // whisper init
+    struct whisper_context_params cparams = whisper_context_default_params();
+
+    cparams.use_gpu    = params.use_gpu;
+    cparams.flash_attn = params.flash_attn;
+
+    struct whisper_context * ctx = whisper_init_from_file_with_params(params.model.c_str(), cparams);
+    // init audio
+
+    audio_async audio(30*1000);
+    if (!audio.init(params.capture_id, WHISPER_SAMPLE_RATE)) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s: audio.init() failed!\n", __func__);
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    audio.resume();
+    // TODO: Investigate why this is required. An extra second of startup latency is not great
+    // wait for 1 second to avoid any buffered noise
+    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(1000));
+    audio.clear();
+    // TODO: consider some sort of indicator to designate loading has finished?
+    // Potentially better for the client to just start with a non-blocking message (register commands)
+    process_loop(ctx, audio, params);
+
+    audio.pause();
+    whisper_print_timings(ctx);
+    whisper_free(ctx);
+
+    return 0;
+}