README.md

Streamlit Multimodal RAG

This Streamlit application implements a multimodal Question Answering (QA) system using the LangChain library.

Key Features

• Interactive Streamlit UI for file uploads, DB build, and QA
• Accepts input files in PDF, audio (WAV, MP3, opus), and text formats
• Transcribes audio to text using HuggingFace DistilWhisper models
• Audio transcription runs in close to real-time on CPU
• Background loading of models takes time, notice top-right running indicator
• Requires HuggingFace API key
• Docker container exposes port 8001, access UI with browser localhost:8001

Flowchart

Models Used

• Sentence Embeddings: huggingface/sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2)

  Note: input text longer than 384 word pieces is truncated.

• STT: distil-whisper/distil-medium.en

• LLM: declare-lab/flan-alpaca-large

Installation

docker build -t streamlit-app .
docker run -p 8001:8001 --rm streamlit-app

GUI access localhost:8001

Note

Please be aware that this is only a Proof of Concept system and may contain bugs or unfinished features.

Resources

• langchain Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
• langchain RAG documentation
• streamlin Ask my PDF app